Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...decided he should get into aviation and he did. He made contact with Vincent J. Burnelli, 34, Texas-born plane designer, who calculated that he could design a monoplane's fuselage so that it would help in the flying lift...
Therefore John Davison Rockefeller Jr., generous donor to the 36-story Broadway Temple now being completed at Broadway and 174th Street, pleaded last week for skyscraper churches which would lift the glory of God as high as the glory of life insurance and stocks & bonds. Said he, at a banquet of Temple-building bankers: "We do not want the business world to look down on churches...
...boundless grew the possibilities of profiteering, that the new Nationalist Government hastily drafted and enacted, last week, a drastic "Appreciation Tax" designed to lift some of the burden of wealth from profiteers...
...work one of these curtain speeches about "illness. . .kind consented. . .learned the part overnight" that are such a ball-and-chain on amateurism, and which were burlesqued out of sight by Beatrice Herford in "Cock Robin". Minder Sewall as Mimi, Allegra Mackay as Bianca, and Louise Piper as Hilda lift the play, but nothing like the way Ruth Bond Hill does, as Lona who spends the night before Anatol's nuptials to another chez Anatol...
...optimistic. More than a veil of smoke has clouded the rallies of the past two years. There has been enthusiasm, but it has been of a fragile artificiality that could not endure, for instance, night air. The hortatory experts have played to houses that only an invoked loyalty could lift above tepidity...