Word: lift
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very well with Vanitie and Yankee but in 1931, lonely after separating from his first wife, he returned to business, as J. P. Morgan & Co.'s trouble-shooter for the slipping Gillette Safety Razor Co. His bet was that he would lift the earnings to $5 per share, or take no pay. If he succeeded, he would get 20,000 Gillette shares, and 20,000 more if earnings reached $6. Depression kept him from lifting earnings above $1.98 after four years of trying, but the new one-piece Gillette which opens up like a clamshell is basically his invention...
Elementary laboratory periods have a tension all their own when poor, nervous students are graded by eagle-eyed assistants every time they lift their fingers...
...When an airplane climbs so steeply that its wings lose lifting power, it stalls, falls. Last week Langley Field engineers introduced a gadget that senses the loss of lift, blows a horn to warn the pilot...
...studio they swished newspapers under the door to catch his eye. Only his daily stroll around Washington Square interrupted his painting. "When short skirts came into fashion," Van Wyck Brooks remembers, "he spoke of the beautiful movement that women had made when, at a streetcorner, they turned round to lift up their skirts before they scurried across the street. 'That's a lost art,' he said...
...examples of the treachery of March winds and told what to do about them, there was a flurry of grateful new subscribers. There was another marked customer response to the June number, which explained the dampening effect of hot, thin summer air on engine power, propeller thrust and wing lift; the consequent higher stalling speed; the atmospheric didos to be expected; the effect of heat on pilot reactions. But Air Facts' main theme is the folly of "slow-low" flying: "When the time comes . . . to nose down to secure proper control of an aircraft at low altitude, there...