Word: geared
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...Aeromarine Seaplane, type 39-B, which the society used at Marblehead, last winter, and which was "crashed" during a flight across the lake chain of southern New Hampshire to Lake Champlain last summer, is now being repaired and converted into a land plane. The reason for substituting landing gear for the pontoons is that there are better facilities for land flying in eastern Massachusetts and not that the flying and instructing which members of the society did last spring, using Marblehead harbor as a base, was a failure...
Next year the club hopes to be able to purchase another plane from the Navy and to fit it with landing gear, so that it will have a plane for use on land as well as one for use on the sea around Marble-head...
...Great War," said Senator Lodge, "has shaken to its foundations the entire fabric of society, business and industry. On the continent of Europe the economic and industrial organization has been shattered. In England and the United States it has been shaken and thrown out of gear. Therefore, a vast work of reconstruction confronts all great nations of western civilization, and the United States is not exempted from this task. We, too, need wise measures of reconstruction...
...recent article in the Advocate entitled. "Low Gear" and an unfavorable criticism of Freshman Physical Training seems to us to be rather well written and at times even witty, but, we think, because it possesses a surface brilliance does not mean that the opinions are therefore sound. The article is written by a member of the class which is having the training, and therefore ought to be worth something...
Mother Advocate has opened her columns to an ill-informed Freshman contributor, who rants passionately against the new Department of Physical Training and its head, Mr. Geer. "Low Gear" he calls his article...