Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Doty is currently trying to form a college weightlifting club. He said that there were many boys in the college who would like to lift and that Harvard could "meet M.I.T. with some hard work...
Adams and staff will live at the 30-year-old Gettysburg Hotel, which has spent $20,000 converting an adjoining basketball court into a bright new press headquarters for 60 reporters. In the town's small Annie M. Warner Hospital, one room with an electric-lift bed has been set aside for Ike by his physician. Major General Howard Snyder, in the event of any emergency...
...give Berliners a lift, and show that they are not forgotten, Bonn decided last May to send them West Germany's most cherished possession: the Bundestag (Lower House of Parliament). It was reckoned that a meeting in Berlin of the democratically elected Bundestag would throw a massive challenge at Soviet despotism and its stooge East German government. Last week West Berlin got the Bundestag-its first look at a democratic Parliament in 22 years-but the effect was less than expected...
High horsepower is a necessity for today's gadget-laden cars. The new automatic transmission, power brakes, power steering, power seat, and power window lift already bleed as much as 10 to 20 h.p. from the engine. And there is no stopping the gadgeteers: the latest air-conditioning units take another 10 h.p. to cool the air inside the car. Apart from the power-robbing gadgets, few engines ever develop horsepower figures contained in the advertising blurbs. Most automakers measure horsepower by means of a dynamometer: the engine is stripped of its load, ideally tuned and hooked up directly...
...every ten Britons who have a hand in major policies read it. About two years ago, Crowther began to spend less time at the Economist, more with his private business (he is a director of five companies-insurance, hotels, etc.). Last week the Economist announced that it will lift the editorial burden from Crowther in March, make him a managing director...