Word: lifts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Skystreak, which set a world's speed record of 650.6 m.p.h. in 1947 (TIME, Sept. 8, 1947). Powered by a single turbojet with some 5,000 lbs. of thrust, the Skystreak was built by Douglas. It manages to lift its 10,000 lbs. off the ground on short (25 ft.), straight wings...
With enough action to make a dozen westerns, Naked Spur should entertain most everybody. The plot is no worse than any of its type. But it is James Stewart's long-legged form and drawling voice that lift the film just over the mediocre western class...
Back and stomach now: push ups, sit ups, leg lifts. Schmitt moved among his boys, counting in monotone . . . "lift, spread, together, down; lift, spread, together, down . . . one, two, three, four . . . up, down, up, down, up . . . hold it now, hold it . . . All right, up running in place for 20 counts...
...toasters to atomic energy is that it is bossed by a man who is neither physicist, engineer nor production expert. Price is still so innocent of mechanical lore that friends kid him about the time his car stalled in Pittsburgh's rush-hour traffic. Mrs. Price had to lift the hood and get it started, because Price didn't know how to work the jammed automatic choke. But what unscientific President Price demonstrates is that management is a science of its own, and that, in a mass-production society based on interchangeable parts, the top managers are also...
Find a "New" Sound. When Miller has found a song for a singer, he calls in the musical arranger, looking for the best way to lift the tune out of the humdrum category. The first objectives: a "new" sound effect-e.g., reverberating echoes or the use of such unlikely instruments as braying French horns or a jangling harpsichord-and an insistent rhythm. To top off the arrangement, Miller asks for a full, rich sound. Sometimes this can be had by a clever distribution of instruments, sometimes it calls for a big orchestra and a massed chorus...