Word: lifting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these circumstances somebody had to come out from behind the moat and do or say something last week before the mystery could in any way lift. Out came not-particularly-well-known General Kohei Kashii and roared that he was the divinely appointed new Military Governor of the Japanese capital. Normally the august name of the Son of Heaven is considered too sacred to be mentioned or invoked, but last week's emergency was clearly supreme and General Kashii rasped: "Orders to establish an emergency guard over conditions in Tokyo have been issued to the First Division...
Martha Graham grew up in Pittsburgh, Pa., daughter of a nerve specialist. One humiliating Sunday he saw his daughter, aged 2, spontaneously lift her skirts, flounce down a Presbyterian church aisle while her mother's head was bowed solemnly in prayer. As her legs grew longer, Martha Graham was more & more determined to dance, had to be reminded time & again that her mother was a Standish, ninth direct descendant of Pilgrim Miles. When she was 10, the family moved to California, where she saw Ruth St. Denis, then absorbed by the fluent Oriental postures inspired by a cigaret advertisement...
Young Roger Knapp can lift 1,165 Ib. attached to a bar across his thighs. He can raise 765 Ib. shoulder high, has a 159-Ib. grip with his left hand, a 155-lb. grip with his right. He chins himself 30 times in succession. Stretched on the floor, he raises and lowers himself by his arms 80 times in succession. He weighs 175 Ib., stands...
When Robert Wadlow of Alton, Ill. was 9 he could lift his 150-lb. father. By last week Robert Wadlow, 18, had become the biggest man in the world, but he could not lift even his small brother (see cut). He stands 8 ft. 3¾ in., weighs 390 Ib., wears size 39 shoes ($86 a pair). During the past year he gained 2 in. in height, continues to grow, may not reach his full growth until...
...been divided into two groups-East and West. Most of the year, Easts and Wests tour the country giving exhibitions, developing young sumo addicts. Each group has its own ranking champion, a score or more competent subordinates, a squad of promising novices who are fed underdone beefsteak, trained to lift huge boulders, finally taught the 48 tricks & dodges of sumo. Twice a year a national tournament is held in the Kokugi-kan to determine by round robin the best wrestlers of each group, and the grand champion. Object of sumo is not to pin an opponent's shoulders...