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...trying to connect couples with existing apartments and rooms in the Cambridge area. But, at the beginning of the spring term in February, when it became obvious that these measures were not enough, the Straus Hall office, aided and abetted by top administrative men, ground into something approaching high gear...
During the war, Bandleader Marshall De Camp got sick & tired of losing drummers in his eight-piece band, Aces of Rhythm. So he hooked his drums to a quarter-horsepower electric motor. A rotating wheel swatted the cymbals; a clutch and gear shift changed the tempo from foxtrot to waltz. The boys in the band unanimously agreed that the mechanical Krupa "sounded like hell." But most of the dancers in the small Minnesota and South Dakota towns were willing to settle for a steady beat. Its strongest champion is the proprietor of the Lyon County (Minn.) dance pavilion, where...
Lurch & a Prayer. In Gary, Mrs. Lylas Hazllett, her car stalled in front of an onrushing train, 1) ordered two riders to bail out, 2) went into gear, 3) stepped on the starter, 4) advanced in painful lurches, 5) lost her rear bumper...
Baseball practice moves into high gear this week as Coach Floyd Stahl returns from a well-earned two-week Ohio vacation to take over the reins from Warron Berg and Adolph Samborski, who have been handling the squad in his absence...
...important phase of work done here was development of the bearing, deviation indicator, which enabled sonar operators to train their sound projectors on submarines with greater speed and accuracy. Also designed were sound gear monitors, which were portable test units used to keep BDI gear in operation condition...