Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...auctioneer dropped his hammer and a boy trotted out behind the curtain to lift The Harvest Waggon off the stage and replace it with Frans Hals' A Young Cavalier. Sir Joseph Duveen had just bought the Gainsborough for a price that set a record for U. S. picture auctions. The painting, a large canvas into which the artist had put portraits of two of his daughters as well as a wagon, a team of horses and a broken shower of golden light, was indubitably the finest single piece offered in the sale of the collection that had belonged...
...inseparable. Wherever the Flag is, there is our love of country, the concrete symbol of all our hopes, all that is best in us, what we have striven for on countless battle fields, in the Spanish-American War, for instance, and the War of 1812. When we lift our hands for the pledge and solemnly repeat: "I pledge allegiance to the flag, and to the country for which it stands, one and indivisible, with liberty and justice for all," can any one-hundred per-cent citizen fail to grasp the deep meaning, the patriotic tenderness, the passion and spirit...
...Volpi, brilliant, suave, self-made Finance Minister, spoke to the Senate, last week, with what he styled "brutal frankness." The Government, he said, had put the lira on a gold basis (TIME, Jan. 2), but it will not go further and issue gold coins. Secondly, the Government will shortly lift most of the restrictions on foreign trading and exchange transactions with private Italian interests. Thirdly, notice is again given that Italy will continue repaying her debt to the U. S. only so long as her receipts from German reparations continue...
...know; this statement, in fact, being true of the whole book. Are you aware, for example, that muscular activity is effected by chemical reaction; that the efficiency of our muscles is 25 per cent something better that that of a steam engine; that a frog's muscle can lift one thousand times its won weight? Have you a clear conception of what causes the "lubb" and the "dup" of the heart beat? All these question open up a new field to the casual reader, along...
Anxious to lift the conversation to a higher plane, a lady from a Boston paper inquired whether Sir Thomas thought that jazz had affected the culture and life of manhood, "in the deeper sense of the word...