Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greatest hindrance to deflation in prices is the fact that everybody desires it in all products except that which he himself produces. How are we going to bring about deflation when we continually obstruct it? It is like the man who tries to lift himself by his own bootstraps...
...yards and a touchdown; the other was followed in a couple of plays by a second touchdown by Aldrich in a smash off tackle. Thorne Murphy, second-one-string quarterback, generalled the combination team, which was at no point strong enough to give him a chance to lift his customary goal from the field...
...pedantic consciousness of literary tendencies and influences. This too is the fault of the college. After a well phrased statement of this lamentable situation, Mr. Colby wisely withdraws. Perhaps at this point he became aware of certain difficulties which escaped Mr. Chapin's observation: that if we are to lift the colleges we must first lift the epoch on which the colleges are superimposed; that the colleges are not poisoning education; that the colleges and education are poisoned together at the wells of modern civilization. For beneath all isolated mistakes lies the common ground of a sophisticated and second-rate...
...Governor Allen," said Professor Carver in giving his reasons for his choice, "is the only officer in the United States to be elected to an important public office without having sought it. He was nominated and elected while he was serving with the Red Cross and did not lift a finger to secure the nomination or the election...
What is best in our civilization? Our scientific knowledge surpasses that of other nations; let us share it with them and lift them out of ignorance and ill-health into fuller and freer lives. The story of the men and women who have given, not their money, but their lives, to the task of founding schools and curing the sick in foreign lands was repeated with new fascination. Dozens of doctors, teachers, and agricultural workers came to inspire with their presence the new generation of collegians. But the best thing in our civilization, said the leaders of the convention...