Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sama Clara Valley, fishermen riding the slow swells off San Diego, humble shopkeepers in the little stores of San Francisco. But they learned last week that, in a nation's hour of peril, having been born a citizen is not enough. So they began to pack their keepsakes, lift their slant-eyed children on their arms, and start on the long migration east across the Sierra Nevadas, to dreary inland country far from the blue sea. They were some of the West Coast's 70,000-odd Nisei. Their honorable ancestors were Japanese...
...raft in the light of the burning ship. It was about 20 feet away. I thought to myself: 'Can I make it?' I was getting awfully pooped, for you see the oil was caking on me, and my arms were so heavy I couldn't lift...
Audiences of the early days nocked to hear the Polish pianist Volovsky "play 400 notes in one measure"; to watch jullien, famed French-English conductor of the 18505, lift a pair of kid gloves from a gold platter and carefully draw them on his fingers before conducting Beethoven; to hear & see 100 red-shirted firemen at the Boston Peace Jubilee of 1869 clanking 100 anvils to Verdi's Anvil Chorus...
Crimson hopes for a strong baseball team received a decided lift yesterday when it was announced that Paul Delahoyde '44 last year's Freshman first-string catcher, would not be drafted, as was feared, but had joined the Marines, and had been deferred until September. Delahoyde and Captain Ned Fitzgibbons, were the standouts on the mediocre 1941 Yardling team, both of them good hitters and accurate ball-handlers...
...Crimson tonight will lift the team out of sixth place and move them into fifth...