Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are two ways of approaching a weight which you are about to lift. Willie Rohrer likes to stalk about it, eye it suspiciously. He creeps toward it, grasps it. Softly he snorts. He waits, sometimes five minutes, as though to catch gravity off its guard. Suddenly he yanks at and lifts it (a steel bar weighted at each end by iron discs) high above his head. Last week, he lifted successfully every weight he tried...
...Manger takes his burdens casually. He ambles toward the bar and, simply, lifts it. Sometimes he does not lift it much higher than his knees. In this case he puts it down, bows sadly to the audience. But if he succeeds in raising it, he holds it im mobile, and proudly, through his big nose, sniffs the stale...
...Nine years ago," he says, "I started to lift weights. I have never stopped. Then I weighed 94 pounds. Now I weigh 179 pounds and have never felt better in my life. I eat almost anything, but I do not drink...
...flying at the stalling angle with the automatic slots open one wing drops, the pilot raises the aileron on the opposite side. The aileron movement raises its interceptor to a vertical position. The interceptor interrupts the air flowing through the slot before it. Thus the wing gets no air lift on that side and it drops until it is level with the previously dropping wing on the other side of the fuselage. Thus does the pilot have a good opportunity to prevent a spin and to pull his plane out of its stall...
...City. It comes to a stop, comes to life. Men pop out of its doors. In a moment there is amazing activity. Torches held in brawny hands provide light. Neighing horses are driven in dozens down shadowy ramps. Behind them come lumbering elephants, single file. Men lift down great, gaudy cages. A flickering light reveals the prisoners-lions, bears, monkeys, the population of the Ark itself. And men and women-tiny men and tiny women, tall men and tall women, thin men and fat women, tattooed men and bearded women, ordinary men and ordinary women. The train has come from...