Word: gears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more liable to use the Australian word and pronunciation and call his shipmate "Silor" with the "i" pronounced "eye." This entire matter should hardly merit all this discussion as it is our knowledge that it is rarely necessary to call the sailor at all-just the sounding of "mess gear" or "pay call" on the bugle being sufficient. At any rate-we never call each other "bluejackets...
...Sainte Marie, ice-breaking car ferry, tucked up her gear last week, flirted a rudder at the mush of ice coming down St. Mary's River from Lake Superior, and swaggered back to her winter's work of hauling railroad cars across the Strait of Mackinac. Under her Captain F. A. Bailey and with the aid of tugs she had broken up the river ice and thus released the worst traffic jam in Great Lakes' shipping history...
This, we followed up some miles, riding over successive roches moutonnees to one of the upper likes, where we found an excellent base camp, with wood, water, and good feed for the stock, and my companions quickly got out their fishing gear and started for the golden trout...
Foul Eating Gear. Germ-carrying utensils and dishes in public restaurants are a general menace. W. A. Hadfield and J. W. Yates of Madison, Wis., advised that all eating gear, after washing, be soaked for at least one minute in rinse water to which sodium hypochlorite has been added. Chlorine is liberated and kills bacteria...
There were few freaks on exhibit: an amphibious Peugeot, a motor boat on wheels, ready to take to the water by a simple shifting of gear; the Bleriot wood-burning car (TIME, Oct. 11) generating gas from fagots; a Fiat with an oak-mahogany paneling, interior drive, 26-h.p.; an electric Parville, claimed to run 930 miles without a recharged battery...