Word: lift
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rotor is composed of two semicircular vanes on an axis-in cross section shaped like the letter S. As the plane moves forward, air pressure causes the rotor to revolve backward. That action, combined with the forward movement, produces low pressure on top of the rotor, increased pressure (lift) on the bottom. If the motor should quit the rotor continues to spin in descent, the lift force stretching the plane's course into a long glide. Unconsciously Designer Hatlestad had employed the Savonius windmill principle.* His scheme is not to be confused with the Flettner rotor or recently publicized...
Uphill. Before the White House portico Mr. Roosevelt kept his seat in the car, waited a few minutes for President Hoover to join him for the ride up Capitol Hill. A lift of silk hats, a quick handshake, a few formal words and their greeting was over. With the country's most precious cargo behind, Richard Jervis, silvery-haired chief of the White House Secret Service, slipped into the front seat of the car, kept its door cracked and one hand on his pocketed pistol...
...tried like this and could not lift him. Then I started screaming and ringing the bell. The porter, he came. We lifted the Senator into the berth. I lifted his arms up and down. I patted his body all over. I opened his eyes. I blew in his mouth. Then some doctor come. He push me aside. I want to do anything to bring life to the Senator...
...wounded hero abandoned by the Greeks on Lemnos on their way to Troy, and later eagerly sought by them when he and his famous bow were needed for the capture of the city, had been treated by both Aeschylus and Euripides. Sophocles made changes in the myth which lift the plot from the level of a common intrigue to a study of the highest psychological and ethical interest. He intensified the loneliness of the here by making Lemnos a deserted island, where Philoctetes lived in hardship, a prey alike to paroxysms of intense physical pain from the noisome wound...
...dweller along Eastern shores. At a distance it looks like a big tadpole. It has well-developed eyelids which wink. Powerful muscles enable it to use its pectoral fins like arms in hoisting itself a little way up wide-based tropical trees. When the periophthalus wishes to it can lift the front part of its body with these fins, gaze solemnly around, blinking like a dowager basking on her elbows at the beach...