Word: lift
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Amoy, picturesque port of Fukien province, opposite the Japanese island of Formosa, local Chinese merchants expressed themselves as being weary of the boycott engineered by their compatriots. They instituted attempts to lift business from its paralytic cot, to open schools this month...
...cruising radius of the seaplanes out of Etah was cut down from 1,000 to 700 miles by the absence of a smooth stretch of beach in Etah harbor, the planes not being able to rise from the water with as heavy loads as they could lift from land. The round trip to Cape Hubbard and back is some 600 miles, leaving a margin of safety which Commander R. E. Byrd judged insufficient...
Teaching Mrs. Coolidge to swim doesn't mean a thing to me. I'm not all athrill when I lift her head or direct her hands. She is to me like every other student...
...them high over the coastal glaciers and dizzy ledges where only little auks can live. Commander Richard E. Byrd of the naval aviation unit accompanying Explorer Donald B. MacMillan (TIME, June 22 et seq.) reported his trial flights entirely satisfactory. The party only waited for heavy fogs to lift before taking off for Axel Heiburg Land, where the first advance air base was to be made...
...with a month's rations, 157 miles from the Pole, 450 miles over the Polar ice from the nearest hope of rescue, without dogs, too far north for animal food. They must choose between walking and striving to lift a 6-ton plane onto the ice and clearing a take-off over corrugated ice which might split at any moment. They chose the latter...