Word: lift
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...baskets, stretched for two miles, and slowly wended their way toward the receiving platform, now motor trucks with loads of 200 to 600 baskets occupy that length of street and "zip" to the platform, unload, "zip" away again for another load. "J.T.D." gave humanity a big lift when he brought the idea of canned soup to a reality, and both he, and the farmers are reaping the golden harvest as a result. FREDERICK T. ROBERTS Philadelphia...
...Williams was adjusting the parachute while mechanics were trying to start the plane's huge motor. Suddenly the plane slipped into the water. She was not damaged. But trials were postponed. Next day Lieutenant Williams taxied down the river. She made 110 m. p. h. and started to lift from the water. Another 100 ft. and she would have been in the air. That was a fact upon which he had calculated. But at that speed the twist of the motor forced one wing to feather the water. He figured out a way of overcoming the effect...
...platform into a wagon. We had games on the farm to test strength and grip. A fellow had to plant both feet in half a barrel of wheat and then pick up two bushels of wheat or corn and balance them on his shoulders. Another trick was to lift a 200-pound keg of nails without letting the keg touch your body. I could do that easily but I never realized then it was helping me train for the Big Leagues...
...stories, simpler in design, are quite as effective. There Are Smiles records the encounters of a smart young thing in her smart new roadster with Ben Collins, traffic policeman. He chides her for reckless driving; she smiles, gives him a lift to his home in the Bronx. In conversational bicker, pleasantly casual, she touches upon the man her father wants her to marry; he warns her to drive carefully "for that guy's sake"-and for his. Next morning the cop's newspaper tells of her- death in a motor accident. Says the cop to himself...
...damage only a few grimy spokes emerged from the depth. Always helpless where mechanical resourcefulness is needed, the Vagabond made a few futile attempts at digging with a jack handle and then sat down on the running board to await in patience the arrival of a lift to the next town...