Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most Democrats took him at his word and excluded him from their 1932 plans. For two years he sank out of political sight while his Empire State Building began to lift its high head over Manhattan. But when the 1930 Congressional elections came, Al Smith like an old warhorse, sniffed the smoke of battle. Massachusetts Democrats wanted him to help elect Marcus Allen Coolidge to the Senate. He went to Boston and received an ovation that for noise and fervor equaled his 1928 welcomes. Democrat Coolidge was elected over Calvin Coolidge's Republican candidate. The Brown Derby still had plenty...
...competition between industrial concerns financed by R. F. C. and those not so aided. Secretary Mills mocked the Wagner direct relief plan thus: "When you're going to bust the Depression with a $300,000,000 appropriation it's like getting a ten-year old boy to lift up the Washington Monument and bring it here into this room...
...Catch hold of the skin at two places . . . so the ends will wiggle. Some fellers claim that the point of the hook showin' scares the fish but that's all wrong.'. . ." When a trout bites, " 'lower the tip of the pole a minute. . . . Now lift the tip up again easy . . . then . . . strike quick...
...wing consisting of a depressible flap at the trailing edge which doubles the maximum lift and the speed range ratio...
...airplane wing enclosing within its trailing edge a flap which the pilot may extrude and withdraw. Extruded, the flap increases the maximum lift by 250%, increases the speed range ratio (difference between top speed and minimum landing speed) by about the same degree...