Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus was shattered the belief that President Coolidge would not lift finger or utter syllable directly to affect the election's result...
...Stokowski, Alfred Hertz and Frederick Stock voted the prize to Ernest Bloch for a symphony named America. In late December, almost simultaneously, the five conductor-judges will give America its first performances?Dec. 20 in Manhattan and San Francisco, Dec. 21 in Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago. Other major orchestras may lift their voices in unison...
After several postponements the Graf Zeppelin stood ready, its 18 hydrogen bags prepared to lift 121 tons into the air for its motors to drive over the Atlantic at from 70 to 84 miles per hour...
...Yale-Maryland game in 1922. The undergraduate press, on its mettle, has oiled its cylinders and turned out bales of stuff. But in most cases a single college, or colleges as a whole, has had to take punishment from individuals whose position made it possible for them to lift up their voice and be sure that it would be heard...
...Crimson combination showed more power fundamentally than any University team in recent years. Springfield, although fighting stubbornly, was considerably inferior to the Harvard eleven and did not offer it a very severe test. The forward wall, averaging 187 pounds, showed great lift and coordination on the offense, but had little opportunity to prove its worth on the defensive. It was the line's aggressive driving and almost perfect clearing that paved the way for the success of the off-tackle slants which netted the Crimson most of its yardage...