Word: lift
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some citizens of the U. S. wondered last week, if this so "unAmerican" super-service is given over U. S.-made telephones. It is not. Swedes long ago refused to tolerate the heavy, antiquated type of instrument which requires two hands to lift it from the table and manipulate it. The "Made in Sweden" telephone is a one-handed device, weighing only a few ounces, combining the transmitter and receiver in a single mounting. Therefore, and because of their excellent quality, Swedish telephones have been very widely adopted for the newer installations in Europe, Asia, Latin America...
...revolutions per minute.* Then he pushes the joy stick forward slightly to get the plane's tail skid off the ground, pulls it backward and the plane rises. Green pilots sometimes try to elevate a low-powered plane too abruptly. The result is that the engine cannot lift the plane at the angle of the elevator. The plane loses flying speed, slips downward, is likely to crash. A passenger in a well-launched plane from a smooth runway is hardly aware that he has left the ground -unless he peeks...
...perfect pitch. But then, often, the simple words are tortured and strained deviously to sustain ecstasy, in bodiless comparative discussions of ecstasy itself. Then the lines ache like tendons not strong enough to keep a soaring hawk aloft, needing a gust of action, a wingbeat of refreshed emotion to lift the poem again...
...present reviewer yields to no man in his satisfaction in this reform. It is good journalism and good business, and will do more to lift the mortgage from the old home than any amount of "special number", fake CRIMSONS, and the like. All that remains is to make the paper a little bit funnier, without, of course, admitting to its columns anything that would bring the blush of shame to the cheek of modesty. For instance, Jones contributes to the May 4 issue a first rate professional cover; the kind of work that outside magazines are glad...
...stand or walk, is the time to begin teaching him to avoid them. Long before a baby can climb onto a bed or chair he should learn to get safely down. Whenever the mother happens to be handling the baby on a bed, for instance, she should not lift him down when she has finished, but should turn him over onto his little tummy, slide him gently backward until his legs hang over the edge of the bed and continue to draw him gently downward until his feet touch the floor. Then she can assist him to drop to hands...