Word: lifted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...department to department. Essentially, decisions would be arbitrary, hence unfair. It was then that the majority argued: it is much better to unsnarl the whole administrative tangle by legislating automatic eligibility for students with the proper collection of grades. Yet the opposition was quick to point out that to lift the restriction setting the choice for C.L.G.S. or thesis-cum-tutorial an early deadline meant that seniors could drop the thesis at any stage they wished. And, the opposition remarked darkly, many seniors would...
...colonial ancestor of Virginia's Senator Harry F. Byrd, named the place the Great Dismal Swamp. After trekking through the muck and mire with a band of hardy surveyors, Byrd emerged bug-bitten almost to death (the Dismal Swamp's yellow fly, they still say, will politely lift a man's hat from his head so as to get a better bite at his ears). The swamp, straddling the Virginia-North Carolina border, just across the James River Bay from Norfolk, was nothing better than a "filthy bogg," he wrote. Even birds would not fly over "this...
...high-cheekboned face. When he has completed a flourish of movements, he has a trick of presenting himself to the audience with shoulders thrown back and arms outstretched, calling for the ovation that never fails to come. His ability to rivet attention on himself-whether in a soaring lift, a pantherlike leap, or a flamboyant succession of jetes-is so marked that resident dancers gather in the wings to watch...
Utilizing a retractable "variable-sweep" wing, the TFX will enable man to fly almost like a bird. To take off, soar and land, it will straighten its wings for maximum lift; in flight it will tuck its wings into its body, enabling it to dive and thrust like a falcon. Flying at more than twice the speed of sound, the two-man plane will range up to 3,000 miles with a load of nuclear-tipped missiles. The variable-sweep wing idea came from Aero-dynamist John Stack five years ago. when he was working for the Government. Big design...
...Crimson's 7-0 triumph last week over Princeton demonstrated that the skill was there and may have added enough of a lift to the team's morale to enable it to down the Bruins. Sophomore Cormac O'Malley ably substituted for ailing Chris Ohiri, and may be the solution to one of he team's most pressing problems--scoring goals...