Word: lifted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well known that a highly efficient airplane engine can lift only 50 Ibs. for every horsepower that it can generate. Figuring the average man to weigh 150 Ibs., he would need at least three horsepower to pull himself through the air, and he can produce only one-tenth of a horsepower himself. Ability to magnify that puny force by aeromechanics is Captain Dibovsky's claim...
...Robot-perfection too mechanistic and grubby? Unless treated as a professional school, college should attempt to do little more than awaken an interest in other people's grooves. In the mad rush for marks, details, for true-false examinations, authoritative quotations and the like, no one seems to lift his eyes above the Library spire. College should be sipped and enjoyed as a liqueur and not gulped down as rot-gut gin for pure animal excitation...
...that same old gentleman (as well as many another person) entered the new Graybar Building in Manhattan. Having business upon the 16th floor, he enquired for the stairs. Such, however, was the appearance of the elevator starter that he allowed himself to be cajoled by friends into accepting a lift. "Let me out at the 16th floor, please," he said. With amazement and a shock of terror, he watched the operator press a little button on a switchboard at his elbow. As other passengers entered the polished car, the operator pressed a button for each, corresponding to the designated floor...
...demonstration.... There were two graduates waiting for it when it arirved in New York. Rather a poor way to support even a losing team. The Harvard undergraduate body shows that it hasn't much spirit, and the editors of the Crimson show they have none." As nice a lift of straight forward reasoning as ever clinched a point for an expert on college spirit...
...Lift him gently, lay him sweetly...