Word: lift
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Indeed it is this sort of practice that does make the Vagabond weary of the world and want to lift his ladder up in his Tower and live there forever with his rich illusions and good friends. In fact that is where he has been those past few days; but this morning he descends again and is off. But so world weary is he that this morning, like a true rover that he is, he shan't let names of lectures wind his way but rather the names of men. So at nine he is off to Sever...
...went up to Wise that night along with my cousin and not meaning no harm. Along in the evening Raymond Meade came along and said he would give me a lift back to my house in the Pound. There was some more people in the car with him but we let them out down the road a piece and Raymond Meade says to me: 'Let's go to the Little Ritz and get something...
...recent gubernatorial elections in Kentucky [TIME, Nov. 18 et ante] may well lift the Blue Grass State to a new role in National Politics...
Admitting with a cynicism which one would think too callous even for Gallic minds, that the League of Nations has never been more than a stooge for her own European machinations, France is unwilling to lift even one tapering Parisian finger to raise it out of a chaos in which slie has no interest. Now that the League has done its dirty work, France finds herself in the embarrassing position of the housewife who must once and for all get rid of an old servant without having the neighbors accuse her too loudly of cruelty and ingratitude...
Hymn No. 467 was written by that great U. S. statesman, John Hay. It begins: Not in dumb resignation we lift our hands on high; Not like the nerveless fatalist content to trust and die: Our faith springs like the eagle, which soars to meet the sun, And cries exulting unto thee, "O Lord, thy will be done...