Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...double-leaf structure is 331 ft. long, wide enough (108 ft.) for eight traffic lanes, rests its 18,400,000-Ib. on 32 caissons, sunk to bedrock, 102 ft. below water level. It is so delicately balanced that no more than two 100 h.p. motors are required to lift its huge jaws skyward for occasional vessels to pass in & out. of the Chicago River. Some Chicagoans were disconcerted by the two right angle turns at its southern approach, with only a four-lane highway on Randolph Street for traffic midcity bound. And some complained of bottlenecks getting...
...have been invited the proctors--who are expected to excite interest in some form of get-together sport among their charges--and ministers of the various churches in the Square. Moving pictures will be shown, tea served, and acquaintanceship encouraged. Thus the first unofficial move in recent years to lift solitary Freshmen from the pit of despair is about to go into practice. If successful, more power to the charity...
...part. ' That part will consist in being pretty much the One Big Union of show busines assuming full responsibility for jurisdictional disputes, integrating the unions into a harmonious structure, planning long range policies. It will light censorship, act as liaison between acting groups and other unions, give a lift to WPActors...
...made in the Michigan Open three years ago. Said he: "After I started with three birdies in a row in mv first round, I knew I was on my game and I just kept going. . . . On the final round, I was so tired I could hardly lift my clubs...
...time Montague had been around Hollywood for a year or two, he was sharing a house with fat Comedian Oliver Hardy whom he could lift with one hand. He golfed with celebrities like Bing Crosby, and joined the Lakeside Club where the rumor was that he amused the members one day by standing husky Cinemactor George Bancroft on his head in his locker and closing the door. Through his social success, John Montague retained his peculiar shyness. Whence he came or where he got his money, he told no one. His friends were either too afraid or polite...