Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more flexible formula will gear pay to the Government's new cost-of-living index. Wages will rise a penny for every index increase of .6%, drop a penny for every decline of .68%, compared to a rise or fall of 1? for every 1.14 points in the old index...
...flight. The X-3 lands well above 200 m.p.h., and its little, faired-in windows give its pilot almost no view of the ground as it flashes below. When Bill Bridgeman squared away and headed on a straight-in approach into Muroc, he cautiously opened his landing-gear doors. They buffeted alarmingly. Then he lowered his wheels. The X-3 obviously didn't like...
This week, across the U.S., fresh-water fishermen from barefoot boy to caravan-equipped sportsmen were polishing spinners, varnishing rods, tying flies, oiling reels, patching creels. Some 20 million strong, they were prepared to spend $1 billion on gear, gasoline, guides and other expenses this year in the U.S.'s No. 1 participant sport. Some were already catching fish...
...wander off the grand sweep, studying Collycibber instead of Pope, has led the department to climinate self directed tutorial sessions by anchoring them to the hard core, of English 10. The sections of English 10 are the tutorial sessions; the section men are the tutors, and they must necessarily gear their work to that of the course. All groups, therefore, study roughly the same material, at approximately the same speed and diversions are kept to a minimum by the necessities of English...
...Eddie, he is an inexhaustible, rapid fire narrator of undergraduate wickedness, and a belligerent upholder of the Boston Post. But when the modern Boston whirl has been pushed aside, as it often is during his long afternoon talks with Professor Kellcher, Harvard's Irish expert, Eddie is in lower gear; his speech is deliberate, his gestures wider and slower. He is talking then of his beloved Ireland. "Last summer, Frank O'Connor (Eddie's good friend), Kelleher, and myself read some Irish poetry in one of the House rooms. It was murderously hot. We drank beer, and Frank read...