Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, after two years in Body-Builder Hoffman's gymnasium-lifting the bar bells he helped manufacture*-20-year-old Steve Stanko, standing 6 feet tall and weighing 220 Ibs., was recognized as the No. 1 strongman of the U. S. Competing in the national weight-lifting championships at Chicago, against the pick of some 1,000,000 U. S. residents who lift bar bells for exercise, Stanko made all the other contestants look like parlor performers...
...That without getting off his seat, its driver can lift his plough over any such obstacle by simply touching a finger-tip control...
...Butler faced a House of Commons chagrined and angered by the blockade, announced the Government was considering "measures." The British Government issued a statement which still offered arbitration on the question of the four Chinese but which hinted darkly of possible reprisals if the Japanese refused to lift the blockade. The Cabinet met for two and a half hours, went over methods of economic retaliation. Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes called Japan's action a "declaration of war against the British Empire." The New York Herald Tribune editorialized that the Japanese blockade...
...good screen story, a capable unstarred cast and direction that supplies suspense of Alfred Hitchcock calibre lift Five Came Back out of the Swiss Family Hollywood class and up to the distinction of a sort of Stagecoach on wings. Director of Five Came Back was 35-year-old John Villiers Farrow, an Australian-born seaman-author-director and soldier of fortune who jumped a ship in Honolulu, worked his way to Hollywood in 1927, has been a cinemauthor and director there, as well as in France and Austria. As a low-budget director at Warner Bros, he fired no worlds...
...exile Moses and Monotheism was written. But no trace of lamentation shows in the tone of the book. We live, says Freud imperturbably, in remarkable times. For a long period it seemed that progress had made an alliance with barbarism, as in Russia, where a great attempt to lift the people to a higher standard of life was coupled with a ruthless suppression of free speech and thought. But in Germany this unnatural marriage has been dissolved, and barbarism proceeds alone...