Word: lift
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meets all demands with that superb adequacy which is the aptest test of architecture, an art in which inspiration must yield to practicability. An architect who was always inspired would be a failure. On one of those great occasions when Cass Gilbert was inspired, he saw a tower lift, in his mind, its pale indomitable pinnacle so beautifully that generations must inquire: "Who designed the Woolworth Building...
...whose force, diffused through the etching, creates the thing seen, tower or bridge or buttress, as a piece of inevitable logic, the peremptory gesture of a hidden impulse. When he drew a crane he was not interested in making an accurate picture of a piece of machinery used to lift stones; the crane became as vital a thing as a comet, a mountain or a waterfall. This is the quality that informs all his best work: his bridges poised in tensile grace over tugboats and coal barges; his factory forges; his skyscrapers lifting, tier by tier, their walls and towers...
Fordyce. Glenna Collett, "greatest U. S. woman golfer," last week attempted to lift the North and South championship for the fourth time. Louise M. Fordyce of Youngstown, Ohio, defeated her in the finals, 2 up and 1 to play...
Life is short, but the newspapers that record one day are sometimes 60 pages** long. Knowledge is power, but the old-style encyclopedias that contain it are so heavy that only a powerful arm can lift them. Words burn like stars, great thoughts outlast granite mountains, but the books in which words and thoughts, are written will weary a man's hand and tear his pocket. "Condense what you write," this age has said; "compress it, synchronize it, cut it down." For borne time such reflections as these have animated the mind of Rear Admiral Bradley Allen Fiske...
...There are a goodly percentage of TIME readers, naturally inclined to solve puzzles, rebuses, who would gloat over your Quiz. Another big percentage, denied sufficient time in their educational years to get what the Quiz practically supplies, would be able positively to lift themselves by their boot straps. Yet it seems to me (a three-score-and-ten-year man, generally placed in the all-round category) somehow out of place or not dovetailing in with your plan and scope...