Word: lift
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dunoyer de Segonzac for a sketchy landscape of St. Tropez. Painter de Segonzac, 49, is an important artist, has won the gratitude of Riviera realtors by first discovering the possibilities of the Gulf of St. Tropez in 1906. But few critics could find anything in this particular canvas to lift it above any one of 30 or 40 others in the show...
...while the heart is contracted to the blood pressure while the heart is dilated, and multiply the sum by the pulse rate. A normal person, said Dr. W. Stanley Sykes of Leeds, England, has an energy index of 14,400 millimetres of mercury per minute, or the ability to lift that much mercury by the force of the heart action. If the figure runs up to 45,000 or 50,000, as is possible, it demonstrates to the physician that the heart has enlarged considerably to carry this load, and that an operation will be risky...
...great difference of opinion at present as to whether this is a genuine discovery, or as to whether it is a merely temporary technical device." Einstein thinks "strict causality" will some day be reinstated; Eddington thinks that rascal is out for good. On the whole, says Sullivan, man should lift up his heart again, contemplate the universe with renewed hope. Science is no longer implacable and omniscient; it has become "selfconscious and comparatively humble. . . . The discovery that science no longer compels us to believe in our own essential futility is greeted with acclamation, even by some scientific...
...more intense, always more colorful. As everyone knows, one-half the world's people squat on that portion of the globe that lies between Karachi and Harbin. And all oilmen know that one more gallon of kerosene each year for each & every Hindu, Siamese, Chinese and Japanese would lift sales to figures fantastic. Thus there is always desultory scrimmaging between the big oil companies. It broke into open warfare in 1927 when Socony and Royal Dutch were fighting for the Indian gasoline market. Sir Henri Deterding loudly shamed Socony's Charles Meyer for buying "bloody" Russian...
...participant forgot anything at the U. S. S. R.'s first All-Union Aviation Festival last week. A small crowd of 10,000 spectators trooped out to Moscow's Octobrisky Airport, impassively watched the nation's largest airplane, the giant ANT-14, waddle across the field, lift its saurian tail, lumber aloft. Suddenly in a spatter of color the world's record for mass parachute jumping was broken.* Thirty-six graduates of the Soviet parachute school, some of them women, issued from the side door of the ANT-14 like bees from a hive. Ten others...