Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Supreme Court this week gave a body blow to the American Medical Association and a hefty lift to the idea of group prepaid medical care, a scheme A.M.A. had fought tooth & nail...
...Appointed Francis B. Sayre, pre-war High Commissioner to the Philippines, as Deputy Director of Foreign Relief & Rehabilitation under Herbert H. Lehman. >Decided to lift the ban against nationwide publication of casualty lists, in effect since Pearl Harbor. In this decision, he yielded to the persuasion of Information Director Elmer Davis, who had long resented accusations that the Government was needlessly withholding the cold, hard truth...
...July 1941, a U-boat took Leibbrandt to a point off desolate Namaqualand, South Africa. With $10,000 and radio equipment he rowed ashore in a rubber dinghy. For three days he walked across the hot plains, finally got a lift to Cape Town. Then he headed for the interior...
...policies were then moulded by that fact. To be sure, what our nation did was, at best, imperfect and was diluted by much hypocrisy and materialism. But the churches had driven basic Christian principles into the consciousness of a sufficient number of persons so that they could and did lift our national action onto a somewhat moral plane. That is what I desire to see happen again...
This incident is only a climax in a reign of terror for New York City teachers. Recently teachers have had their eyes blackened by students, been hit by rocks, pelted with blackboard erasers. One girl has struck at least nine teachers, who are for bidden to lift a finger (though a male teacher recently risked his job to trounce a boy who had insulted a woman teacher...