Word: lifting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hunger for health and wellbeing, having been gassed while behind an A. E. F. machine gun. This experience, plus his instinct for broad-gauge ballyhoo, has made him a modern reincarnation of the oldtime medicine show "doctor." The therapeutic qualities he first discovered in his cigaret program ("Get a Lift With a Camel") are now to be noted in tea. If the $500,000 test campaign shows results after a year, Mr. Esty confidently expects to develop a tea account which will run into major money...
...peace propaganda societies, helpfully offered a draft for a new Neutrality Act. It would give the President not only orders to embargo exports of arms but also optional authority to embargo exports of all materials essential to war. More important, it would give the President power to lift embargoes in favor of nations which are the victims of aggression, provided a) that the majority of the nonbelligerent nations signing the Pact of Paris agreed who was the aggressor and, b) that Congress approved...
Like many a diseuse, Sarah Osnath-Halevy gained telling effects with a .shrug of a shoulder, a lift of an eye. More marvelous, though, was what she could suggest with her long, slim hands alone. Each finger seemed to have a definite part, each pose its own particular beauty. That such hands should have washed dishes and scrubbed floors seemed almost incredible. But it is a fact that Sarah Osnath-Halevy was a domestic servant before she made her mark as an interpreter of songs. Her family, driven out by Arabs, left Yemen when she was 4. On the long...
...Officer James Luther Adams last week slapped a thoroughgoing quarantine upon the county's 30,000 residents. No one was allowed to go to work, school, church. Closed were all stores except drugstores and groceries. The Hobart Democrat-Chief suspended publication. When businessmen complained, Dr. Adams promised to lift the quarantine after the five-day incubation period of cerebrospinal meningitis had elapsed...
...Away and lift my eyes up unto the hllis, and though...