Word: lift
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...machine-made play, performed by actors in the best clothing dummy style. Robert Emmett Keane, the Reading man, characterized by Critic Hammond as a "straw-hat comedian," signalizes every impending wise crack with a lift of the katy...
...hesitated, but finally followed him into a handsome entrance hall. He motioned me into a lift. We stepped out into an upper corridor. Carl took out a key, opened a door, and drew me into an anteroom, from which a curtained archway opened. Before I could draw back, he closed the door behind us, and catching me in his arms, kissed me madly...
...Lift of Christ...
...minister's interests" he continued are as broad as humanity; every day he meets new problems; every day he deals with men and women, who are in difficulty or in sorrow, or who need a helping hand to lift them out of life's temptations. And each time he gets a new slant on life and on his fellowmen; each time his sympathy and interest in mankind is rekindled and revivified...
Hydrogen Arguments. While helium is exceedingly light as compared with air, it is somewhat heavier than hydrogen. The total lift of a helium-filled dirigible is accordingly some 10% less than that of the hydrogen-filled airship. The difference does not appear important at first sight, but the total lift of the gas carries the structure, the motors and the crew. It is only the last 20% or so that is available for carrying fuel, and hence a difference of 10% in the gross lift may spell a difference of 50% in the fuel-carrying capacity. On long-distance flights...