Word: lift
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...foolhardy." He declared that his object in offering this prize to college students had been to "interest the coming generation of writers and thinkers, the young men and women who stand on the doorstep of life's opportunity, the class of the rank and file of intelligence who can lift moving pictures, if they are so minded, from the mediocrity with which they are threatened to the heights which they ought to occupy and to which they have every logical reason to aspire...
...certainly received with more consideration by the playreader than by the manager or the public. The manager may go through the $500 formality of accepting a play. But a play in rehearsal is worth six in the manager's safe. It may take him three years to lift it from his shelf and feed it to the actors. And even then the odds, according to statistics, are eight to one against the material expression of public approval through large and continued contributions at the box office...
...There is but one telephone in Oxford University" said Mr. K. K. M. Leys, exchange tutor from University College, Oxford, in his address last night at the Faculty Reception at the Harvard Union. "We have no lift anywhere in the college, and if there is such a thing as a card-index I have never seen it." He said that to one coming from as old a University as Oxford, the organization of an American college such as Harvard seemed "powerful and rather terrible...
...swear it! " thundered the reply" Then lift your hands and take the oath," concluded the priest, whereupon 200,000 raised two fingers of the right hand...
...most distinguished, but not out of any plenitude of superlative voices. The glory has rested with the orchestral and ensemble elements of the performances. Toscanini is the world's supreme conductor. By sheer mastery of nuance arid phrase and tone building in the mass he is able to lift an opera to a plane where the qualities of the solo voices count for little...