Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost immediate independence.* He said that war-plant production and expansion would be greatly accelerated by the motive of patriotism; that military training and conscription might be introduced; men of ability brought to defense service; villagers trained, as in China, to make war goods. "India," said Snow, "would lift up her head, shake off her inferiority complex, and get in tune with the rest of the world...
...last week tapped the one group of experienced pilots that had not yet heard the come-hither of the armed services. To ferry aircraft from factory to airdrome, release uniformed airmen for combat service, it invited the 500 or 600 women with commercial pilot licenses, to give it a lift, sat back to await a rush of ladybirds...
...thousand Negroes stood last week in a public park in Dallas singing to an orchestra's accompaniment. On the program was a number entitled Lift Every Voice and Sing. Called out Director A. H. Jackson: "How many of you know the song?" Almost every hand shot...
Wherever Negroes gather in the U.S., hands rise just as quickly to such a question. To them Lift Every Voice and Sing is the No. 2 song to the national anthem. While white people bemoan the lack of suitable patriotic songs, even find fault with The Star-Spangled Banner's annoying octave-and-a-half range, colored people have quietly adopted a rousing anthem of their...
...Lift Every Voice's rolling phrases and solemn, striding music (hintful of the Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana) are not new. They were whipped out in 1900 by two Negroes for a Lincoln's Birthday celebration of Negro schoolchildren in Jacksonville. Author is the late James Weldon Johnson, writer, lyricist, educator, first Negro to become a U.S. consul, secretary for 14 years of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Composer is his equally famed brother, J. Rosamond Johnson, popular song writer (Under the Bamboo Tree, Nobody's Lookin' but the Owl and the Moon...