Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...undergraduates narrowly escaped death yesterday noon when the cogwheel of an elevator in the University Muscum gave way. The lift was dropped form the ground floor to the basement, while the three-foot cogwheel fell from the top of the shaft and harely missed the students who were returning to the ground floor after a Geography class...
...begun. To no one had Franklin Roosevelt yet confided his Term III plans. But now his silence had new meanings, now at last the U. S. realized that President No. 32 will delay his announcement until the last possible second-perhaps even until convention time. Meanwhile he will lift no finger to aid any other Democratic candidate, will quietly permit the Term III fuglemen to dust off any aspirant...
...scheduled to the minute, with attacks on the New Deal shrewdly keyed to the mood of the section where they were to be delivered. Political success of Candidate Dewey to date has been less that of a veteran campaigner than that of the fabled strong man who began by lifting a new born calf, hoisted it each day as it grew until he was able to lift a full-grown bull, with bystanders waiting for the day when Dewey's success, growing faster than he did, would finally floor...
...Authority (all five of whom are fathers). Should expectant mothers do likewise ? Certainly not, says the CAA. This typically masculine decision got very much in the hair of blue-eyed Mrs. Betty Huyler Gillies, Long Island society matron and transport pilot. Last week she sent a message to CAA: lift that...
...riderless horse jump higher than a man? To try to settle this footling argument, Manhattan's Metropolitan Equestrian Club last week invited five A. A. U. athletes to compete against 14 show-ring jumpers. With riders to "lift" them, horses have been known to jump almost 9 ft. high. Bareback, few have ever equaled .man's best high-jumping record: 6 ft. 9¾ in. Last week's contest was a washout. Horse's highest jump: 6 ft. 2 in. Man's highest jump...