Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...explain his subject. What is more remarkable is that he has something remarkable to tell. With the war on, the navy demands our interest, whether or not it has been directed that way before. Our naval program, in the planning of which Secretary Roosevelt was invaluable, promises to lift our sea forces to a position worthy of the United States. It will be no dull dissertation this afternoon when the man behind our naval guns speaks. It will be no small audience which gathers in the New Lecture Hall, for Harvard men, above all things, like leaders...
Across the shattering night and lift...
Thus from their toil new orders lift and leap...
...prime topics of discussion with newspapers, educators, and the great public used to be, before the war came along to lift their attention to loftier things, whether college men were democratic or not. A like subject is little worth the debate that has been put upon it. The question depends on what is meant by democratic. College men are more open to fair judgments of their fellows because they associate with them in a most intimate way. But, like other men, they are subject to the errors of judgment...
...Then lift the glass and drink it down...