Word: lifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newspapermen needed most. It was Conant's idea that the money should be used to give about a dozen newsmen a year a chance to study at Harvard as "Nieman Fellows," take whatever courses they liked. The plan has brought prestige to the university, and given an unacademic lift to courses where the outspoken newsmen...
...doing fine.*Hardest hit was the tabloid Mirror, which shrank to a skinny eight pages but clung stubbornly to Winchell, Pearson and two pages of comics, along with a nubbin of news. (And moved a nightclub comedian to crack: "I'm so weak I can't even lift a copy of today's Mirror V) Whistling shrilly to keep up its courage, the starveling Mirror ran a daily silver-lining box. Sample: "The Mirror . . . has become a collector's item. In time, the paper which you buy for 2? . . will be sold by dealers in rare...
Then the plane may flip in a violent roll, or snap into a dive as the wing loses its lift. Racked by enormous forces, the plane may suddenly disintegrate in midair...
...thunderously that a piano leg fell off. As Rosenthal described it: "I had to play without the pedals. I finalized the piece with one leg holding up the piano." In 1938, a man of 75, with a huge red mustache and playful wit,* he boasted that he could still lift a 500-lb. weight or take care of a burglar by jujitsu. Some times he sparred a few rounds with Welsh Heavyweight Tommy Farr. But since then, U.S. audiences have had few opportunities to watch his flying fingers and applaud his romantic 19th-Century music...
Such developments had been long predicted, but usually by freewheeling prophets or Buck Rogers artists who ignored an obvious deficiency: power supply. No known fuel contained enough chemical energy to lift a useful payload above the atmosphere. But new knowledge of the possibilities of atomic power (details secret) has changed all that...