Word: lifted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been engaging in a third-party flirtation with Joseph B. Ely. That two-time Governor of Massachusetts quickly denied knowing anything about it. Six hours before Father Coughlin went on the air, Representative Lemke, House member of the famed team of Frazier & Lemke, whose last bill proposed to lift farm mortgages with $3,000,000,000 worth of greenbacks (TIME, May 25), announced himself the Union Party's candidate for President. Picked to run with this Yale law graduate as Vice-Presidential candidate was a Harvardman, Thomas Charles O'Brien of Boston...
...York City alone there are 41,470 elevators-more than the total on any continent except North America. Every day they travel 100,000 miles, lift and lower 15,000,000 passengers-twice the number carried by all other New York transport systems combined. Very rarely there is a brief delay through mechanical error. Much more rarely is there an accident. In 1934, last year for which figures are available, there were 96 elevator accidents in Manhattan. The ratio: one death for every 196,000,000 passengers: one injury for every...
...kept in the lighter vein by a steady flow of genuinely amusing dialogue. Probably the last chance to see a definitely out of the ordinary picture. The companion piece is amply entitled "Biography of a Bachelor Girl," the original stage title "Biography" apparently possessing too little of that certain lift which brings the boys rushing to the box office. Ina Claire's stage role is handled by Ann Harding with comparative skill and the film manages to maintain a goodly amount of the play's diverting sophistication...
...Camels, you find tobacco at once rich, mild, and perfect in taste. Camels set you right! They give you a cheery "lift." And never jangle your nerves or tire your taste...
...only person who seemed at all sure of himself was chipper Senor Rivas Vi cuna of Chile. "Well, I at least have my orders," said he. "Chile will vote to lift Sanctions as soon as the motion is offered, and I have been instructed to raise the question myself if the proper opportunity arises...