Word: lift
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lift up your voice and with us sing...
...Pope snoozes. For nasty weather, Pius XI has a pure white raincoat, with galoshes to match. If he wishes he may go motoring, for he has many automobiles. He has also famed radio Station HVJ, a telephoto service, a new elevator to replace the Vatican's old hydraulic lift. Cows used to browse in the Vatican gardens, but these along with the Vatican horses are to be sent out to Castel Gandolfo in the Alban hills. Cosy, chummy modernity is the note; but the Swiss Guards still parade in the outfits Michelangelo designed-for them...
...adequate training to students, and the lack of maturity in the students themselves, can be traced to the defective organization of the lower schools. Until that organization is strengthened, the efforts of the colleges, although they may eliminate various evils, will be like the attempt of a man to lift himself by his bootstraps...
...unfortunate choice because the other man's wife stabs Florabel. Then follow some of the liveliest obsequies to be seen on the stage since Porgy. Miss Orchid drops her city ways.succumbs to the ancestral voodoo call, turns into a priestess. That part of Savage Rhythm will probably lift you out of your chair...
...Church: the Maternity of Mary. He urged Protestants as well as Roman Catholics to venerate her, especially "those mothers of modern times, who, annoyed by children and the marriage bonds, have vilified and violated the duties which these impose. Such mothers will find it particularly useful to lift their eyes to Mary and seriously consider to what height of dignity she has elevated the very heavy task of motherhood. . . . Are they [Protestants], perhaps, ignorant of, or do not they reflect attentively on the fact that nothing can be more acceptable to Jesus Christ, who certainly burns with great love...