Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That brought a defense for Dick & friends from one Sheelagh Hardie: "Surely Dick, having emerged unscathed from fire and water, from the perilous lift-shaft and the homicidal ape, need fear little from this new assault. Surely, too, our children, having wrestled for one and a half hours with compound fractions or Latin verbs on top of a long day's schooling, are entitled to their 15 minutes' reward. Who grudges the bishop his detective novel or the businessman his nightly half-hour on the Times crossword? . . . Heaven postpone the day when our priggish offspring forsake such unsophisticated...
Mecca, with Lift. Skidom's newest center is on the Rockies' western slope. Early in the war, the Army, looking for a place to train its loth Mountain (ski) Division, picked Colorado for its crisp air, and powdery snow, and the Alpine grandeur of its slopes. As a result, a ski mecca with the world's longest ski lift (14,100 feet) will open this month at Aspen, formerly a quiet Colorado mining town. In Steamboat Springs, schools have begun ski-instruction courses, and three Big Seven Conference colleges (Colorado, Utah and Wyoming) have adopted skiing...
When the Star of Cairo reached Rine anna at 2 a.m., Tansey was told the ceiling had fallen a bit; it was 400 feet, but there were signs that it would lift...
...Sure," said Hammond, "if you can build one to lift a 20-ton trailer...
...concentrations in Yugoslavia's Vardar Valley, north of Greece. It seemed likely that all such activity would stop before the Security Council investigators could get within gunshot. If Greece's northern neighbors should hastily sweep everything under the rug, it would be up to the investigators to lift...