Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bathurst, Gambia, on the northwest shore of Africa the Lindberghs waited two days last week for a breath of sultry air to lift their plane and start them across the South Atlantic. Behind them lay a five-month cruise from New York to Labrador, around Greenland, through Denmark and Sweden, into Russia to Moscow, around the British Isles, through France, Holland, Switzerland, Spain to Portugal. From Lisbon, where Mrs. Lindbergh declined two bottles of 200-year-old port wine, they flew to the Azores. Thence they zigzagged via the Canary Islands, where Colonel Lindbergh painted a sign on his plane...
...house of thatch heard the words of scripture and a prayer in their own language; and also a sermon by Bishop Adna Leonard who concluded that the U. S. in the midst of all its troubles needed, even more than new laws, ''the . . . spiritual note which will lift up Jesus Christ as the burning centre of the Church's faith to you devoted missionaries who are carrying the gospel of the Son of God to the Christless millions of the earth...
...situation closely resembles a jelly-fish: to raise it you have to lift all around, you can't just pick up one corner. Since the present situation is such it requires methods that are big enough to pick it up all around, and not do a slip-shod, ineffective job by raising only one corner. And it is this necessary size of the present project that causes people to fear that the plans are too large to handle and have passed from the range of man's leadership. However, it has already been shown in industry that plans of this...
...Sarraut, twice Governor of French Indo-China, spoke to journalists of restoring French prosperity by "putting our colonies to work" and of strengthening the garrisons of France with colonial troops. Two Moroccan regiments were ordered to Lyons, but not without causing the pale eyebrows of General Maxime Weygand to lift. Great General Max, the Army's executive Commander-in-Chief, holds that "in France colonial troops become easy victims of Communism and alcoholism." He announced last week that he will make an inspection tour of Morocco. Promptly the Paris Matin predicted that when General Max returns he will further...
...Amarillo, Tex. Last week Navy officials awaited confirmation of a report from California, that an oil well in Madera County was yielding nearly pure helium. Scientists were skeptical for two reasons: 1) Exhaustive tests had convinced them that California gases are not helium-bearing. 2) When tested for lift, "helium" often turns out to be nitrogen or carbon dioxide...