Word: lift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cambridge accent, and is an accomplished painter and violinist. At 31 he became a fellow of the Britain's Royal Society, and he is now the chairman of India's Atomic Energy Comission. In new York last week week, Dr Bhabha explained how India intends to lift itself by its atomic bootstraps...
Some manage jokes. Said Grammarian Dominique Bouhours: "I am about to-or I am going to-die; either expression is used." Asked how high he could lift his arm, the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher said: "Well, high enough to hit you, doctor...
...quick meeting. The public outcry was beginning to tell on them. Machinist Stan Wetton got up and said: "Our attitude has become un-Christianlike." The other men nodded. Before they adjourned, the men voted to thank Ed Boyce for being such a good steward-but also to lift the ban on Hewitt. When Hewitt came back from lunch and climbed into his cage, Boyce walked over and said: "O.K., Ron, it's all off." Hewitt smiled and shook Boyce's hand. "I don't bear anyone any malice," said Hewitt in a burst of talkativeness. "Let bygones...
George A. Skokan '58, who finished third in the 198-pound class, was the outstanding performer for Harvard. His total lift was 435 pounds...
When not in use, the dangerous "source" will be kept in a well in the floor of a heavily shielded chamber. To put it to work, the scientists will first clear out of the chamber. Then, watching through a lead-glass window 3 ft. thick, they will lift it with remotely controlled "hands" and set it where its gamma rays can strike through mixtures of chemicals...