Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long, tall room with the proportions of a cathedral nave. Two are already installed, driven by the most powerful (65,000 h.p.) motors in the world. Each can pump enough water (one billion gallons a day) to meet the needs of New York City. All twelve pumps together will lift 16,000 cubic feet per second-close to the average flow of the Colorado River...
...Wimbledon last week, it was beginning to look like the year of the crocodile. Germany's Gottfried von Cramm, no crocodile but still a masterly all-court player at 42, could even now take the starch out of youngsters who could hardly lift a racket in the days when Von Cramm was a Wimbledon finalist three years running...
...movie is hardly more fortunate in its casting. Kathryn Grayson and Howard (Annie Get Your Gun) Keel, playing Magnolia and Ravenal, lift good voices in Composer Kern's buoyant songs, but Actress Grayson is less than entrancing as the belle of the Cotton Blossom, and Actor Keel's impression of a well-born river gambler's courtliness and dash looks like self-conscious make-believe. Ava Gardner, if occasionally out of her dramatic depth, has no trouble looking her part as the sensuous Julie. But she half-whispers Helen Morgan's old numbers (Bill...
Like an adolescent going through the Decameron avidly picking out "the dirty parts" and missing all that makes it great literature, Mr. Blanshard seems to go through Catholic writing looking for juicy tidbits he can lift out between strategically placed quotation marks, that he may condemn the Church seemingly with her own statements. To anyone familiar with the contexts so used, to say nothing of the spirit of the Church, this device is amusing if contemptible; but to the naive or uninstructed it can be misleading to a degree prejudicial to justice...
Dartmouth, however, took decisive action. Director of Athletics William H. McCarter said the Indians will not play Pennsylvania in football as long as it "defies the N.C.A.A. ban on television. It is possible, however, that the N.C.A.A. might lift the ban. But until then, Dartmouth will honor the television agreement...