Word: lifted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foot-operated lift for toilet seats...
Choosing to make entertainment out of such funereal subject matter required no small amount of guts on the part of the director, Michael Powell. His decision showed conviction in his own powers to lift the production above the gloominess of its surroundings and give it not only a large dose of social conscience, but the powerful entertainment value that comes of great tragedy. Those forces which could have killed the picture so easily,--the greyness and desolation of the set, the start, decadence of the characters,--were capitalized on by Powell to give the picture the incredible strength which...
...eight Italian aviators he awarded the Spanish military medal. In a speech characterized by Latin expansiveness, the Generalissimo predicted that Spain's present air strength will be "multiplied a hundred times in the future," added that "it must be prepared on a moment's notice to lift its wings to rebuild the empire and make Spain great...
...Venetian blind flap, built like a wooden window shade, which gives more lift for slow take-offs and landings than any flap now flying, means that speeds can be made higher without worrying about how fast a high-speed ship will land, how much run it will need to take...
...Britain's was about $22,000,000,000 in 1937, practically a capacity year for them; U. S. steel capacity is over 70,000,000 tons, British steel capacity is 14,000,000. British industry is now for the first time getting a real lift from arms spending of $2,948,000,000 for defense-44% more than our 1939 bill. To achieve a proportional effect on a five-for-one basis, U. S. arms appropriations would have to be $14,740,000,000 a year. If this discourages businessmen about the prospect of armament, it may also encourage...