Word: lifting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Challenger. Racing for the America's Cup tends to become an obsession. From 1899 through 1930, proprietor of the obsession was Great Britain's famed Sir Thomas (tea) Lipton, who spent $4,000,000 on five unsuccessful tries to "lift the Mug." Skipper Sopwith challenged for the Cup for the first time in 1934. Beaten after a disputed finish in the fourth race, he sailed home in a rage, announced he would never challenge again, took almost two years to change his mind. Famed principally as an airplane manufacturer, whose first appearance on the U. S. scene...
Having watched the stockmarket hit its fourth bottom without a heartening rally last week, Wall Street began to lift an anxious eye to the general business picture. Was the stockmarket forecasting another slump? Pooh-poohing the "harvest of gloomy warnings," Cleveland Trust Co.'s Leonard P. Ayres observed last week: "The declines in stock, bond and commodity prices are not astonishing. They were all overdue, for prices had been marked up overly fast by speculation. . . . Probably the chief cause of our worries is that most of us have forgotten that even during recoveries there are no such things...
Thoroughly tired of his company's continuing to be to the Bolivian Government what the Jews are to Hitler and the Trotskyites are to Stalin, an unnamed Standard Oil official at New York last week exploded: "Preposterous, utter, sheer nonsense! We would not raise a finger or lift a telephone receiver to stir up trouble in Bolivia." Meantime, with the Bolivian press crackling away at the yanqis, President Toro quietly transferred Standard Oil's confiscated refineries to the Government-owned Yacimientos Petroleros Fiscales, prepared to give them a new whirl...
...year being nigh, Economics A is about to lift its heavy hand off 734 odd persons, and the students are able to count up what they have gained and lost in the largest course in the college. Always the target of a shower of slings and arrows, the course has rarely been pricked so hard and so often as this year. The instructors are tempted to hide behind an old shield, their lack of time to give to the students due to the painful crimping of the Department budget, but a large missile marked "disorganization" cannot be thus dodged...
Courses designed to meet the "real educational needs of current lift" will be given, with a large number treating modern problems. Some titles of courses are" "Industrial Organization and Control," "Constitutional Government and Dictatorship," "Contemporary France and Spain," and "Child Psychology...