Word: lifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...While sitting, lift a 100-lb. bar bell from the floor with both hands and straighten arms overhead. Ten times in 30 seconds...
...With hands behind back, lift from the floor with teeth a 35O-lb. weight...
...With one finger, lift 350-lb. from the floor. Eight times in five seconds...
...first is oil. Ever since the beginning of the war, natural oil refineries and stocks and synthetic fuel plants have been the primary R.A.F. target. The results were not too encouraging; the Nazis still seemed to have plenty of fuel to roll their tanks and lift their planes. But after the British had, at least for the time being, sewed up Iraq's oil, after the Germans had attacked one of their oil suppliers, Russia, after the Russians had done some damage in the Ploesti fields of Rumania, the oil barrage took on more point and more fury. Last...
Lucy Monroe has taken to wearing red, white & blue. Altogether she has sung The Star-Spangled Banner well over 1,000 times. Says she: "I get a lift from singing it. I'd never get tired of it. . . . Once in a while when I'm alone I even catch myself vocalizing on the first three notes...