Word: lift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Referring to widespread state requirements that public school teachers have extensive course credits in certain technical subjects, pedagogy and educational theory, Pusey said the time may be at hand to lift restrictions limiting the eligibility of liberal arts graduates to teach in public schools...
Surely the newest version of this ancient creature will never be a plaything. It took 32 men to lift the pine, oak, and plywood frame from its saw-horses in the boathouse down to the float, and lots of ingenuity to float...
Only the supporting actors lift Rogue Cop out of its mediocrity. Olive Carey, as a scruffy old crone of a stool pigeon, is convincingly reluctant to sing for free. George Raft is the same old master of reptilian menace. The lesser cops and crooks look real enough, but Janet Leigh is too sweet and winsome as a reformed tart; Detective Robert Taylor strolls from pillow to punch, always immaculately and incredibly well-groomed, even for an overpaid...
Bell's new craft uses the same lift principle as Britain's new "Flying Bedstead," of which the Ministry of Supply released the first picture last week (see cut). The Bedstead has two engines, mounted end-to-end, with right-angle exhaust pipes to shoot the jet blast downward, thus cause the Bedstead to rise. From a seat on top, the pilot steadies and controls the contraption by shooting compressed air through nozzles mounted on outriggers. When the Bedstead is tilted forward, the jet stream thrusts it ahead. Similarly, pulling the nose up causes the jets to drive...
Everybody expected Mendès-France to come out with a system of state planning. He did the opposite. He decided to plunge French economy into international competition as quickly as possible by reducing customs tariffs and opening the frontiers. Thus he will gradually lift a great part of the protective decrees. Mendès-France will issue no ukases; it is the old order of free competition which must clean house...