Word: lift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tendency toward chance and randomness. The upward purposeful thrust of life, which continually opposes the downward drag of matter, is evidence, I think, that in nature there is something that we may call-to name what can never be put into words-a Principle of Organization. Not only does lift man ever higher but it provides three great essentials for his religion-: brings order out of randomness, spirit out of matter, and personality out of neutral and impersonal stuff. This Principle of Organization, lifted far above its expression in matter and into the realm of spirit may without irreverence...
More important, CAB is now considering giving nonscheduled airlines a big lift. Though the big scheduled carriers insist that the nonskeds be knocked out of the air, CAB feels that they have proved their worth by pioneering cut-rate flying. In an initial decision, which the full board will probably follow, a CAB examiner recommended that 27 of the weakest nonskeds be eliminated, but that the 33 survivors be permanently certified for a specific number of scheduled passenger flights (possibly ten) each month, plus an unlimited number of nonscheduled flights...
When the SeaMaster alights on its liquid runway and wants to go ashore, it will ease its slender hull between the floats of a semi-submerged "beaching vehicle." Then it will move toward shore under its own power. A more elaborate auxiliary will be a drydock that can lift the SeaMaster clear of the water when it needs major attention...
...Armida, in which a gallant (Somes) pursues an enchanted girl (Beriosova), braving the hazards presented by a misty forest and a jealous witch (at one point she lays him low with an osteopath's neck-snap). The couple goes into some fairly passionate courting, including one handsome lift in which she climbs to his shoulders with the agility of a mountain goat...
...Smith girls, quarantined since the start of the term because of polio in western Massachusetts, have fallen so far behind their sister schools, officals of the college have decided to lift the ban. Even the discovery of three suspected cases of polio at nearby Amherst, and the continuation of quarantines there and at Mt. Holyoke did not influence the decision...