Word: lift
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...William J. Locke and Temple Thurston, then let us hope that American humor may sometime find itself endowed with a touch at least of that admirable vice. "Main Street" and "Ell" present their problem to the rolled excellently well, but "The Beloved Vagabond" and "The City of Beautiful Nonsense" lift the world to alpine where it may galley laugh sees the drudging mortise at their dally tasks...
Theodore Roosevelt, who was then president, recorded his contempt of the Bogota Treaty which was made after this revolution. He expressed himself in these words: "I did not lift my finger to incite the revolutionists. Colombia was solely responsible for her own humiliation, and she had not then and has not now, one shadow of claim upon us moral or legal; all the wrong that was done, was done by her." And now certain interests are trying to "rail-road" this treaty--which has never been ratified--through the present Congress...
...many students in this or any school would turn from textbooks to holier writ; if a single neophyte among those clustered about the Advocate or any college magazine would lift his eyes to the acropolis of esoteric thought; let no restraint be placed upon...
...contests between the British and Americans the British can hardly forget that some of their best runners will never break a tape, their best golfers never tee off, their best polo players never lift a mallet. The runners made their last sprint in the smoke of the Somme, and the polo players died putting their final ounce behind a bayonet. Australasians who watched America win at Auckland must have thought of Wilding, the giant who played so smashingly at Forest Hills the summer of 1914 and a few months later was gone at Gallipoli. Not far from a million British...
...aims which they so soon achieved would still be far away; even this generation might still have been groping vaguely in the darkness. But they bore the torch unflinchingly, and passed it on glowing yet brighter than before. The torch now is ours, and it is we who must lift it high--not with strife, and bickering, and gloomy forebodings, but with calm trust and steadfast purpose. This is our heritage--this is our duty on the stage of life; that courage, truth, and light shall dwell forever in the land of the Pilgrims...