Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...metallic booming continues. It is augmented from other sectors as additional bell-batteries lift up the chorus of their steel-tougued throats. It is nearly time, and the sleck-and-sturdy parade begins. With calculated smoothness, Packard follows Pierce, and Pierce follows Lincoln, with here and there in the procession a disdained Buick. At the proper spot each pauses, ejects a human cartridge or so, and moves off while the full feed belt behind fidgets for its turn. There is no hidden sheen here. No sheen in the clothing, at any rate. They are impeccable--the soft white spat, glove...
...years he was an executive of the Utah Power & Light Co. He sold electricity so suavely that in 1919 he was made managing director of National Electric Light Association, powerful utilities propaganda agency. In 1926 he stepped into the presidency of National Broadcasting Co., just formed, and helped to lift NBC into big money by selling its time to advertisers. Last year potent Mr. Aylesworth left NBC to sell national advertising space in Scripps-Howard Newspapers. He did the job so well that Roy W. Howard last week rewarded him with the publishership of the New York World-Telegram...
...reporter grinned. "Want a lift...
...drinking might lead to excessive drinking. But Authors Waddell & Haag were constrained to add that modern scientific thought held the moderate use of alcohol "does not shorten the life span and probably plays no important part in the perpetration of lawlessness," that, indeed, it helped digestion, gave bibbers a "lift," produced "a feeling of self-satisfaction and physical well-being...
...Here I lift them up to thee...