Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite the emotional lift which the team will have in its efforts to present Harris with a farewell victory, nevertheless, it will probably swim one of its toughest meets in the season tonight, for the Bruins, paced by a group of Sophomore stars from last year's undefeated Freshman squad, invade Cambridge with one of the strongest teams they have had in many a year. Last year the Crimson defeated Brown 62-13; this year may prove to be an entirely different story...
...battleship captain* had his stomach laid open by a shrapnel burst as he went from conning tower to bridge to direct his ship's fight. He fell to the deck, disdained attempts to lift him to safety, continued to command until the bridge went up in flames. Two officers attempting to save him were themselves saved only after a third officer climbed above the fire, passed a line to an adjoining battleship, another to the trapped men, thus led them to safety...
Most lead mines, although Bill Knudsen two months ago asked them to lift output (TIME, Nov. 17), are still on a five-day week-and their output is running at least 20% below...
...father's alfalfa patch near Santaquin, Utah. Suddenly an airplane cleared its way through the haze, circled the field a few times, landed a few feet from the boy. The pilot, for no apparent reason, called to the boy and asked him if he would like a lift. The boy said his father was down at the Mormon Church at the moment, and he wouldn't mind going if they were back before church was out. So they took off, flipped around for awhile and came to earth again in the alfalfa patch...
Japan realizes all this, and she realizes that every month our navy is becoming stronger, as is Singapore. Our recent refusal to lift the embargo means that Japan's aftempts to bluff us into deserting China have failed. The longer Japan waits, the stronger will China become and the more will Japanese surpluses of important raw materials shrink--resources like iron, petroleum, copper, and alumninum, for which she depended almost entirely on America...