Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brilliant sociology student at Virginia Union University and the University of Chicago, sweated his way through as stevedore, ditchdigger, mess boy, night watchman and waiter. In 1923 he founded Opportunity, a Negro journal which published the work of men like Langston Hughes and James Weldon Johnson, gave a lift to musicians like W. C. Handy and William Grant Still...
...prices were rising and consumers were paying the freight, intolerable when prices were falling. Cried Oklahoma's Elmer Thomas: The Commodity Credit Corp. should buy up a million bales at parity to 1) create an artificial shortage and 2) force up the price. Others demanded that OPA lift its 120-day limit on mill pricing of finished textiles, thus permit mills to extend their inventories. Walter F. George of Georgia wanted all OPA ceilings taken off cotton goods...
...means that the Missouri seat held for 20 years by able Jack Cochran, who scarcely had to lift a finger to get elected and who recently retired, will now go to a Republican...
...point to remember was that a political turnover would lift into a new area of activity such Republicans as Arthur Vandenberg, Robert Taft, John Bricker, Thomas Dewey, Earl Warren, Harold Stassen-and Ed Martin. To extreme New Dealers perhaps all of these men except Earl Warren and Harold Stassen were anathema. But not to the country at large. Senator Vandenberg had joined freely and courageously with Secretary of State Byrnes to form the nation's strong, bipartisan foreign policy. Taft's cold, moral judgment and insistence on getting at the facts had more than once saved the Senate...
...Painting in Italy and Rome, Naples and Florence-the enthusiastic studies of Italian painters and passions signed "M. de Stendhal, former cavalry officer," and remarked appreciatively, "This man knows how to use others with skill." It was an apt remark, for it was Stendhal's habit to lift his material from others' books and then calmly "crystallize" it into his own extravagant views...