Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...building near the base of the big mirror. It is set behind large stainless-steel doors at the focal point of the parabola-where the sun's scorching rays are concentrated into a blazing circle only twelve inches wide. Target material, hoisted into place by a ten-ton lift, is placed into an inclined trough-as the target melts, it runs off into catch pans. Another, more sophisticated technique is to load the material into two aluminum vats whose outer walls are water-cooled to prevent melting. Placed with their open ends at the focal point and rotated like...
...many more black elected city officials. Baltimore could have a black mayor. So could Detroit. Newark, Los Angeles and Kansas City. We're coming into politics the same way the Irish did. We're a group with a lot in common with each other. The Irish used politics to lift themselves up as a group, controlling New York at one time. Boston at another...
...across the campus. Chuck Richards said Schmidt's apology-appearing in this morning's paper-was not warranted. The apology was part of the agreement Schmidt reached with Afro. Referring to his column, Richards said, "That particular line wasn't meant any more seriously than any other line. To lift that one line out of context and brand it as racist is absurd. Somehow when it hits closer to home, it seems racist...
...those who see him as "a Titan," "a Hercules," a larger-than-life hero who is miraculously real. Intensifying the "hurricanes of polemic," as one sportswriter puts it, is Urtain's utter lack of finesse as a boxer. He is as unpolished as the stones he used to lift, a slugger who at every outing shows a pervasive ignorance of his trade's finer points. Basically, he is a swarming, dervish-like flailer who leaves ringside observers arguing about which was the actual knockout punch...
...help accommodate any students who become dissatisfied with their living arrangements under the coed plan, Dean May has asked Masters to lift the traditional ban on inter-House movement temporarily among all Houses at Harvard and Radcliffe and to leave room assignments flexible until next Spring...