Word: lifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What are we doing," he asked, "to eliminate poverty, to eradicate slums, to lift the community to a healthier and higher plane of living both materially and spiritually? What are we doing to remove the insufferable social sores that have been passed down to us by generations that lacked either the technological or social understanding to remedy them in their time? What are we doing to help safeguard the few hard-won gains that have been made in recent years...
...answer came from OPM. Then Knudsenhillman sent to Secretary Stimson a recommendation for eight new plants to lift production 600,000,000 lb. a year. In Arkansas, Washington, New York, Alabama, California, North Carolina RFC will finance them: they are to be privately operated-by what companies...
...main aqueduct winds, climbs and burrows 242 miles across the State. Along the way, the water runs through 29 tunnels totaling 92 miles in length, five reservoirs, 62 miles of concrete-lined canals, 55 miles of covered conduits, 29 miles of siphons, five big pumping plants which lift the water a total of 1,617 feet over hills and out of valleys...
...Mohammedans, suckled on the fighting creed of Islam, the nonviolent and democratic ideals of Mohandas Gandhi and his followers are sissified. It was among these fire-eating, creed-conscious Moslems that the Khaksars got their start in 1930. Officially the spade or belch is carried "to lift the humble dust"-it can also be used for drinking, cooking, sitting, skull-splitting...
Although all of the documentaries are grim reminders of the tragic significance of the war for Britain, not one is without its leavening of dry humor. There is a lift to the way a Dover anti-aircraftman dismisses the daily shelling by Nazi big guns across the Channel. Says he: "Aye, we see a flash, count 60, and there...