Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While Dean Chen busied himself trying to revive in Free China such chieh-chi, the seasonal cloud bank which has shrouded Chungking and the upper Yangtze valley since last autumn (effectively preventing Japanese air bombing) began fatefully to lift last week. In Chungking squads of police, under stern orders from Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, worked down street after street driving out of Chungking and into the suburbs thousands of Chinese whom they hoped thus to save from the expected bombs. Many Chinese merchants, restaurant keepers and singsong-house proprietors vigorously protested that they were doing a fine business in Chungking, preferred...
Harvard will play interesting baseball as soon as some of the men lift themselves out of their hitting slumps. There is enough all-around ability on the Crimson roster to give any team in the league a good game. There are lots of choice seats, yours for the sitting, around the Soldiers Field diamond; and the Harvard nine could use some real vocal support--even of the Brooklyn variety. Don't condemn the Harvard games as being dull; go down and liven them...
WASHINGTON -- The Marian Anderson Citizens Committee tonight asked the 49th congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution to lift "the ban on Negro artists appearing at Constitution Hall...
Cozy is a marvelous drummer, noted especially for his amazingly powerful press roll, that being a steady roll gotten by sticks on a snare drum, with a snap that gives it a swell lift. Listen to records like "Ratamacue" and "Crescendo in Drums" by Cab on Vocalion or "Shufflin' at The Hollywood" (Victor-Lionel Hampden) and you'll get the general idea...
...Book Four Flem returns from Texas with a string of insanely wild piebald ponies and sells them to his neighbors. They break loose in horrendous slapstick and pervade the countryside. Mink gets a life sentence; Cousin Flem doesn't lift a finger to help him. Two bourgeois and a desperate peasant invest all they have in a plot of land where Civil War treasure is known to be buried. They find Flem has hoodwinked them as he has everyone else. When last seen, Flem is on his way to larger operations in Jefferson...