Word: lifting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Little, who has served as assistant dean of Harvard, President of the University of Maine, and President of the University of Michigan, uses his wide experience wisely in denouncing many of the antiguated traditions of college organization. The additional merits of eagerness and idealism, which lift this work from the ranks of prosaic scholarship to those of sincere, sound criticism, mark. "The Awakening College" as a pioneer in the field of future educational endeavor...
Plenty-coups stopped his story with the passing of the buffalo. Said he: "When the buffalo went away the hearts of my people fell to the ground, and they could not lift them up again. After this nothing happened." But, says Author Linderman, when the U. S. declared war against Germany, Plenty-coups urged his young men to enlist. The Government recognized his patriotism, chose him to lay the Indian wreath on the Unknown Soldier's grave at Arlington...
...stories to Vice President Curtis whose great good friend he is. He wanted to take the floor to denounce "General" Brown for carrying on a subterranean vice-presidential campaign. But Mr. Curtis dissuaded him. The Vice President let it be known through his friends that he would not lift a finger for renomination. "General" Brown's friends pooh-poohed the Brookhart yarns, insisted Mr. Brown would not take the Vice-Presidency nomination if it were offered...
Parenthetically Democrat Young laid down the economic dogma that "tariffs and other petty political barriers" are definitely pernicious. "Let no man think," cried Economist Young, "that the living standards of America can be permanently maintained at a measurably higher level than those of other civilized countries. Either we shall lift theirs to ours or they will drag ours down to theirs...
Irish Wolfhounds. Big ones weigh two pounds the day they are whelped. The day they are six months old they should weigh 100 Ibs. Cragwood Bally Billy, who is not yet full grown, weighs 150 Ibs. and stands six feet high when you lift his front paws. Just out of the puppy class, he won in the novice class. Mrs. Norwood Bowning Smith of Urbanna, Va., owns...