Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Looking across the border at the tumultuous U.S. strike scene (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Canadians could lift a righteous eyebrow. On their own labor front, trouble was down to an almost irreducible minimum...
Great Scott! That's no way to lift a calf! That's making the outstretched arms do most of the work. That'll kill you in time. You've got to get under your beast and lift with all the power of your legs and shoulders...
...Sciences. Through a series of dams, canals and reservoirs, G.V.P. would provide an all-water route from Archangel to Batum. Involving cities, towns and villages where 50 million Russians live, it would install 14 new hydroelectric power stations. It would add enough water to the Volga to maintain-or lift-the level of the Caspian...
...Raphael E. G. Armattoe, interviewed in Londonderry last week, said that Russia had developed, tested and could mass produce an atom bomb that "rendered the Anglo-American one almost obsolete." It was no bigger than a tennis ball, had a horizontal pulverization range of 53 miles and a vertical lift of more than 6.2 miles, generated a temperature "in the neighborhood of several million degrees centigrade...
...elder Bingham had resorted to insurance offers and movie-star contests to double the C-J's circulation; it had become strictly a business-office paper. It needed a Mark Ethridge to lift its editorial chin. In 1936 it got him, for a reported $25,000 a year...