Word: lifted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cubic feet of icy cold Lake Superior water somersault every second. At the city of Sault Sainte Marie, this "Soo" River drops 20 feet in three-quarters of a mile. But both the Canadian and the U. S. Governments have built locks at the cascades, that can lift two to four lake steamers to the Lake Superior level. These ships, long, round-topped whale-backs for the most part and peculiar to the Great Lakes, carry coal from Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky to ports of Lake Superior, the largest body of fresh water in the world...
Alarums. U. S. administration news organs thought differently. They thought that the Secretary of State had threatened to do something (perhaps withdraw recognition from the Calles Government, perhaps lift the embargo which prevents arms being shipped into Mexico over the U. S. border) if the Calles Administration does not come to heel in the matter of its land and oil laws (TIME, Jan. 25) which the Coolidge Administration deems retroactive and confiscatory. As a matter of fact Secretary Kellogg had spoken as if the Administration might do something, but everyone knew that Congress was in no mood to fight...
...Wagner was elected. The new Senator was once a newsboy on the lower East Side with an extraordinarily keen mind and a lust for law. His untarnished reputation on the bench and the tarnished humanity of Tammany Hall and the power of the "Al" Smith banner were enough to lift him to the Senatorship...
Near Strongs, Mich., one Dr. John F. Deadman, veterinarian, talked softly and whistled to a full-grown timber wolf caught in a trap, calmed it, released it, in three days had it so tame he could stroke it, feed it, lift its lips back, baring the fangs...
...modest chambers and wear the plainest of clothes while representing an infant republic. But the world- like the American people-demands today that the United States be less niggardly toward its officials abroad." Within the last two years Congress has also decided that something ought to be done to lift the U. S. diplomat out of the tatterdemalion era. In 1924 the Rogers Act combined the consular and diplomatic corps into a single foreign service, and increased most of the salaries. At the last session Congress passed the Porter Bill which provides for the gradual acquisition and construction of Official...