Word: lifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Without Love (TIME, April 27) has gained no luster since its three-month tour last spring. A coyly told story of two young people (Katharine Hepburn and Elliot Nugent) who marry for companionship, in due time lift the embargo on sex and wind up madly in love, it is chiefly a field day for Katharine Hepburn and her dressmaker. Actress Hepburn makes the most of her coltish charm. Playwright Barry contributes some witty wisecracks, but not much else...
...Opera is more than opera: it is a crusade. They came from all over the U.S., Canada, Mexico, even Hawaii, picked by audition from thousands of young singers who have applied for a chance to prove that they could sing big-time opera if only they can get a lift or two on the way to stardom...
...prove that the increases will not affect the prices of their goods. There are a few exceptions: 1) raises accompanying bona fide promotions; 2) Merit increases; 3) regular raises based on term of service; 4) extra pay under incentive plans to increase production. But no employer can now lift the salaries of his stenographers from $20 to $40 a week just to keep them from moving to a firm which has an established $40 scale. No employe can expect a raise just to help pay for a new baby...
Everyone remembered the vast lift to U.S. spirits which followed the news that...
Britons got a big lift to their morale last week. According to British leaders, the nation's bone and gristle are growing stronger after three years of struggle...