Word: lift
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freshman basketball five will lift the veil of its 1926 season this afternoon when it opposes Tilton Seminary in the initial encounter in the Freshman gymnasium at 4 o'clock...
...cave dwellers and aristocrats of Washington society might lift their lorgnets and sniff the air in silent protest at her capers, but, after all, wasn't she of their own, of a family than which there was none bluer blooded...
This service is intended to help students to adjust themselves to the methods of college study. The principle is not to lift the burden of work from their shoulders, or to compete with the professional tutors and tutoring schools. On the other hand, it is desided that the necessity for the latter be done away with, and that the students learn to study by themselves, and to study property...
...hill-and-dale intercollegiate championship of the East. All the way the rangy man (James Loucks, Syracuse) had been pressing the runner in crimson (Willard L. Tibbets, Harvard). But now, as he turned his head, Tibbets saw Loucks blow a bead of sweat from the end of his nose, lift his chin and drink a great gulp of air. Yes, in another moment Loucks would sprint. Tibbets could see the finish, the crowd around the tape. It was just too far away; if he let himself out now, he could not make it; Loucks with his superior stamina would catch...
...proposed however to lift the tax on tickets sold by scalpers...