Word: lifted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...among those who did not lift their voices to welcome the prodigy was Edwin Markham, Honorary President of the Poetry Society of America. Poet Markham is old; a snow white beard depends from his chin; perhaps because his long experience has rendered him dubious of prodigies, he examined the little Crane girl's poems with critical attention. Of The Janitor's Boy he said nothing. But last week, when he read her second volume, Lava Lane, he hinted a courteous skepticism. Last week he said to a newspaper reporter...
Meanwhile, a higher rate for the Bank of England is predicted very soon. Such a change would permit the New York Federal Reserve Bank to lift its rate to 4% without causing a flow of gold from Britain to this country-a most undesirable development in the British effort to hold sterling exchange at par. In England the Boston rate-move is thought to foreshadow an advance by the Bank of England...
...National Demonstration of feeling followed the announcement of the detection of the plot. Premier Mussolini appeared on the "fatal" balcony before a crowd of at least 100,000 Fascists, packed so tightly that it was impossible to lift hands to clap. He cried: "You are here in such numbers that it is clear that, if I had fallen under the assassin's blow, not a tyrant would have died but a humble servant of the nation who daily gives his whole self to the cause of his country...
ever the brave lift of a spirit that struck strongest in the face of defeat .... a will that brooked no curbing...
...Professor Kennedy's opinion that "the profession of coaching must be elevated and dignified. It must be done by men of the right type, men who have adopted the profession seriously and permanently and who will lift it by their personal influence and example to the level of intelligence and idealism it is capable of maintaining...