Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...products of this Harvard opportunity is Big John Borican who came here from Virginia State College as a hurdler. Borican got his "lift" at Harvard--and has never forgotten it. Moreover I wrote an ANP story praising Mr. Bingham not very long ago. Several colored colleges came to Cambridge in 1936. Look up the records. The facts are there...
...familiar to Americans as Washington's profile or Lincoln's warts. Last week another great indigenous candidate for national beast got his first boost. He was the Texas Longhorn. His boosters were Texan Author James Frank Dobie and Texan Artist Tom Lea. How far their book could lift the Longhorn into the U. S. animal pantheon remained to be seen. But it was clear that he was eminently worthy of rescue from 50 years of near oblivion...
...through the Bagbys. It all paid out handsomely. Although subscription lists were closed 30 years ago, the concerts attracted as many as 1,800 people at a time. Once a year, $10,000 or so was raised with a concert for the Bagby Music Lovers Foundation, which gave a lift to indigent artists. Among its beneficiaries: Minnie Hauk, the first Carmen in the U. S.; Frau Richard (Cosima Liszt) Wagner, whom Morris Bagby had known in Europe; Baritone Antonio Scotti, onetime bon vivant...
...Champion Reidar Andersen, two of his countrymen who had broken the trail ahead of him. But Torger Tokle had something. Experts say it is the oomph in his satz, that split-second transition from running to jumping at the takeoff. From knees like coiled springs he gets a tremendous lift-soaring out, out, out, like a baseball hit smack on the nose...
...mass meeting recently at Scheveningen he said: "Whoever knows anything about our people knows that we will have nothing to do with imported extremism. . . . We have shown the occupying Power that we cannot shed our national characteristics in choosing the political path we wish to follow. . . . Nobody can lift the veil of the future, but those who take the Bible and the history of the Dutch people as their guide can have confidence that The Netherlands will rise again...