Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...glider is yanked into a 10 to 15 m. p. h. wind, which supplies lift. Thereafter it is the pilot's job to jockey his plane upon the air currents ascending over the rolling terrain. Air usually rises to twice the height of an obstruction. If the pilot can get above a cloud he has an easy time. Wind always rushes up over the edge of a cloud. And the up-moving air is what the glider pilot wants...
...elevator is sometimes called Aufzug (Uptrain) in Germany, more often Fahrsthl (Travel-chair), but whatever it is called, it is always exclusive. Apartment house elevators are few and far between. Service elevators are unknown. Such lifts as there are are proudly marked "Nur für Herrschaften"-"For Gentry Only!" It is always understood, and generally written in the lease, that no messengers, delivery boys, or servants may ride in the lift except when the servant is accompanied by the employer or the employer's dog, cat, etc. That has been the rule, but last week...
...present law. If we may judge by New Hampshire statistics which show a 20 percent increase in registration with a 22 percent decrease in fatalities, the plan under consideration takes care of the purpose of the existing law. In addition, the repeal of the present regulation will lift a heavy load from the shoulders of the careful small-car driver. At present the safe driver bears an insurance burden saddled upon him by the carelessness of others. Finally, by removing insurance from the realm of law, the state will be saved those bickerings between insurance men and politicians it recently...
...Byrd in Antarctica, came an event and an exciting episode. Probably without realizing it, Reporter Owen transformed the episode, and not the event, into a climax-a high-pitched part of the Byrd epic to which, stay-at-home editors feared, he would not soon again be able to lift the Byrd epic...
...white stone library is not part of Mr. Morgan's residence. It is a Grecian marble treasure house, enclosing two lofty rooms of sombre Renaissance magnificence. One contains the great financier's desk, with a paper weight impossible for a child to lift because it is of pure massy gold. The other room is the library proper, with a huge hearth, on either side of which stand ancient columns of lapis lazuli. Around the library runs an overhanging gallery; and the walls are tiered with volumes more precious than gold itself. The effect is solemn and unostentatious, since...