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Word: lift (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Instead of our drab slogging forth and back to the fishing boats, there's a reason to life! We can lift ourselves out of ignorance. We can be free. We can learn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's a Bird! It's a Dream! It's Supergull! | 11/13/1972 | See Source »

...wind tunnels and off 1,000-ft.-high Hurricane Mesa in Utah. As expected, the Navy's flying saucers always soared beautifully-when they were unloaded. But when they had to carry any significant extra weight they fell flat on their faces. Conclusion: the Frisbee's lift-to-drag ratio was insufficient for the vehicle to support a working flare. Back to the drawing board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Frisbee Fiasco | 11/6/1972 | See Source »

Precol Harum. Apparently "Whiter Shade of Pale" was one of the first rock and roll songs to lift knowingly from the classics, Bach (they tell me) in this case. Which led to the rock-classical fusions of Keith Emerson and Rick Wakeman. Meanwhile PH's Keith Reid wrote lyrics that predated, and occasionally surpassed the obscure inanities of King Crimson and Yes. And Procol Harum plays on, the grandaddy of the progressives...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: music | 11/2/1972 | See Source »

...output to date ties the Ivy scoring record set last season by Crimson teammate Felix Adedeji, who added an assist against Dartmouth to lift his point total to seven (six goals, one assist) and remain second to Papagianis in the league...

Author: By M. Deacondake, | Title: Quaker, Crimson Booters Roll In Preparation for Showdown | 11/1/1972 | See Source »

Short-Term Lift. Their findings, reported at a medical meeting in Copenhagen, grew out of studies of TRH's pharmacological effects on laboratory animals. When these experiments showed no apparent side effects from the substance, the team administered it to 18 women suffering from severe depression. In a preliminary test at Dorothea Dix Hospital in Raleigh, N.C., eight of the women who received a single injection of TRH experienced prompt, though in all cases, short-term improvement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Up from Depression | 10/30/1972 | See Source »

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