Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dare we lift our eyes to Thee, for we are guilty, as a nation, of tolerating the practice of vile mob murder...
...quarters have yet been provided for the guardedly anonymous editorial staff, who are still confined in file-cramped cubicles on three floors of the old Times building. Those ancient floors are joined at each end by a winding staircase and the Times's famed lift-"Full load, 3 persons"-in which, legend has it, the great Editor Dawson was once marooned between floors for an hour, copy for an important "leader" article quivering in his hand...
...broke a leg. The fracture was never properly set and a year later his other leg was broken too. Toulouse-Lautrec became a dwarf, shortsighted, blubber-lipped, with a normal trunk and tiny, shriveled limbs. Only 4 ft. 6 in. high, he could not lift an ordinary suitcase off the ground, had special sausage-shaped luggage designed for him. Fortunately, although his aristocratic family could not stand the sight of him, they kept him well supplied with cash...
...pusher propellers mounted behind the big Allison engines lift Airacuda swiftly to more than 30,000 feet, speed it through the skies at an estimated 300 m.p.h. Many of the machine's details are still secret but revealed this week were Airacuda's wing spread, 70 ft. (25 ft. less than the Douglas DC-3), its length 58 ft. and its weight loaded around 15,000 Ibs. From each of the fighting snouts ahead of the engines bristle big 37 millimetre (about 1½ in.) guns (see cut) that throw 1 Ib. high explosive shells two miles. Cartridges...
Onion King Balish is now president of the National Onion Association and chairman of a committee "to Lift the Onion Eater from the Category of Social Lepers." Owning his own company almost entirely, he lives prosperously with his wife in a colonial house at Manhattan Beach, is particularly proud of a swimming pool, a tennis court, a lavish doll house he has built for his four children. Says he: "I give them everything I didn...