Word: lifted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London. No, his plane was, not strictly speaking, a heliocopter. Two small wings projected from it, and it had a propeller, but the huge four bladed pinwheel surmounting the fuselage, deriving power not directly from the motor but from the forward motion of the plane, gave five times the lift of the conventional propeller. This device permitted almost vertical ascent or descent. It also increased immunity from the dangers of motor trouble over unlevel country...
...Jolson, Benchley, Shaw. Jolson, of course, is the lone member of the trio who has gone to any film length and observers noted that neither of his two operas (The Jazz Singer, The. Singing Fool) has been all-talk. Both have been all-sound. If Jolson, whose singing can lift a drooping piece, has not been permitted to do an all-talk piece, it is obvious that a lesser player, unable to break into song, must falter when the piece itself falters...
They are equipped with luxurious trappings, hot and cold running water, sleeping compartments, radio sets, spacious windows. The 90-foot wing spread will lift, beside fuel and passengers, 1,000 pounds of baggage. The three Wright Cyclone motors will propel this load at an average 130 m. p. h. for four and one-half hours, could if necessary attain 155 m. p. h., climb 16,100 feet. Edgar M. Gott, president of the Keystone Aircraft Corp., has for the last two months kept the construction of these monsters a secret...
...walk off with the Walker Cup, which eight be-knickered, cigaret-smoking golfers retained for the U. S. last week at the Chicago Golf Club. Never in the seven years of Walker Cup history has a British team driven far enough, approached close enough, putted accurately enough to lift the trophy. As few expected, the Britishers lost all but one of the twelve matches. Dentist-Golfer T. A. Torrance, Scotch by birth, English in residence, was the only British winner. Onetime U. S. amateur-U. S. open champion Chick Evans was the only U. S. loser...
...forty billions of dollars. They . . . touch directly the lives of comparatively few people. Yet there have been indications of a more widespread realization of the important place these organizations occupy in the marketing structure. . . . The futures exchanges bring into the market a large number of equity traders who . . . lift the burden of risk from the shoulders of producer, merchant...