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Word: lift (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stage its first show, are now planning to raise another $250,000 to build a second gallery below the present museum area. With interest and enthusiasm running high, Director Dwight now sees a chance to parlay the new building into a major art museum, one that will lift Milwaukee into the major-league category in art to equal its standing in baseball and beer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Museum with a View | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

...soars as poetry, or gets moving as drama. Saroyan's words are too many and too vague; the dialogue, at moments, even sounds as if the actors were unsure of their lines. As it happens, the actors are extremely good. As staged by Carmen Capalbo, the production provides lift: Barry Jones makes a fine-flowing aria of his unhappiness, Eugenie Leontovitch a bright nonsense piece of her stage memories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Oct. 28, 1957 | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

This game could make or break the season for the Crimson. Dartmouth is heavily favored, with the pre-game point spread being set at about thirteen; if the Crimson could manage an upset win it would lift the team's morale for the coming games with strong Penn and Princeton...

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr., | Title: Boulris Doubtful Starter As Crimson Eleven Faces Heavily-Favored Dartmouth Team Today | 10/26/1957 | See Source »

Even if the Administrations of the two colleges lift the restriction on Radcliffe membership, it will probably be necessary for each club to petition the Student Councils individually for permission to become joint, Miss Olsen said...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: 'Cliffe Government Favors Renaming Merged Groups | 10/26/1957 | See Source »

Buttons & Fins. In the small-car field, American will bolster its successful line of British-made Metropolitans (sales through August: 8,354, up 78% from last year) by reviving the economy-sized (100-in. wheelbase) Rambler that was dropped in 1955. American will also face lift its regular 108-in. Rambler, give it canted tailfins, a flat roofline, pushbutton transmission and a slight horsepower boost to 215 h.p. in the V-8 model. In the low-medium price bracket. American will produce a third, 117-in. -wheelbase Rambler Ambassador to replace its defunct Nash and Hudson, will give it racier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Little Two | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

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