Word: lifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three days later), ex-Captain Greenberg: 1) began earning his $55,000-a-year salary, baseball's highest (for 60 days at least his pay remains at the 1941 rate); 2) made the front-running Tigers odds-on to win the American League pennant; 3) gave a psychological lift to some 500 big-leaguers still in the service...
...soft choruses muted to a twilight mood and to the rhythm of oars that dipped into pools of phosphorescence [with the] young and fair moving in bevies and clusters on a green lawn in frocks of sprigged muslin . . . wide floral hats . . . sunshades of all bright colors . . . scarves that lift or float in a light breeze as they meet, part, draw together again...
...used to study bombs, shells and rockets. Air is compressed into a 32-ft. steel sphere, then released through a nozzle at air speeds up to 3,000 m.p.h. into a one-foot test chamber. Here small but exact brass models are connected to instruments which measure their lift in the air stream, their drag (resistance to air flow) and their stability (tendency to yaw or tumble). High-speed photographs of their action and of the air flow are taken through thick glass ports...
...years ago this month, when other U.S. companies were asking huge premiums for war-zone insurance, Equitable agreed to give a lift to the newly formed War Agencies Employees Protective Association. It set up a worldwide system of low cost ($15-a-thousand) group life insurance for U.S. Government employes working in or around war zones...
Lieut. Rorimer had opened only a few of the several thousand cases. But he had an inventory, "a complete history of all the art here, looted, indexed and photographed by this gang." He also had proof that the Nazis had planned to comb the Continent with German thoroughness, lift every art treasure valuable enough for them to want. Sample evidence, from a letter written by Göring: "I consider bringing examples of French culture to Germany of the greatest importance, and you may count on the Luftwaffe to help...