Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Founded in 1887, the Horace Mann School became one of the nation's leading laboratories of schoolteaching. Its first, timidly daring explorations did much to lift U.S. schools out of a three-Rs rut. Its experiments in such fields as manual training, natural science, and language-teaching by conversation were copied throughout the nation. But with success, Horace Mann settled down as more of a proving ground for tried methods than a laboratory for new ones...
...Lord, lift this mighty host that is America...
Chet Bowles, hoping to bring things to a head, laid his resignation on the President's desk. Harry Truman had to face it. Reports were that he decided to cut Snyder down a little, lift Bowles to a bigger, better job, settle the steel strike with a price increase of around $5 a ton, give Bowles full authority to hold the line in the future. Another report: Paul Porter, the towering (6 ft. 4 in.) and genial Kentuckian who is now chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, would succeed Chet Bowles as administrator...
Ernest Bevin did more than any other man in London to lift UNO above its fears. Many an emissary from smaller nations had come to London with ideals as high as Bevin's, and higher eloquence. But Bidault, for instance, dared not speak up; French Communists were too strong, and France too weak. The world's most powerful nation was represented in London first by U.S. Secretary of State James Byrnes, a habitual compromiser, and then by Stettinius, a competent, sincere negotiator. But they expended their energies on conjuring up patchwork formulas...
...faint kind of leathery sigh the organ made when the foot first touched the bellows." Jess knew that his daughter Mattie was settling down to a musical session in the attic. Just as she launched into The Old Musician and His Harp, Jess cried aloud: "Friends, let us lift our hearts to God in prayer...