Word: uplift
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...Saturday before election, they made their last big speeches, leaving only afterthoughts and last appeals for their election-eve broadcasts. In Madison Square Garden, flanked by his mother, wife and daughter, Franklin Roosevelt poured out his heartfelt bitterness at those who resented his efforts to uplift the U. S.: "We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace-business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering...
Last week the contradictory novelist-politician offered his 43rd volume in the form of a story of the self-help co-operative movement of California. It is a typical Sinclair novel. It has a good deal of the sunny, buoyant, irrepressible uplift spirit that has distinguished all his writing since he published The Jungle in 1906, the journalistic flare that keeps even his crusading potboilers rattling along at a good clip, a large cast of those singleminded, two-dimensional, easily-stirred individuals who seem to be more frequently encountered in Sinclair's fiction than anywhere else. The co-operative...
These ocean valleys are now more than 6000 feet below sea level in their greatest depths on Georges Bank. An uplift sufficient to bring these valleys above present sea level implies Alpine heights for the highlands of New England and New York and a high plateau for the rest of this region. A cliff about 7000 feet high must have extended along the New England coast in those days...
...short subject, which is very moral, seems to represent the beginning of a series of "uplift" two-reelers fighting against crime. This particular one dramatizes a very clever crime and then shows us that the federal agents most always get their man. The crime is so skillful and the entrance of the policemen so fortuitous that we felt quite stimulated to our first major crime, Q.E.D...
...period, sixty million to 105 million years ago. The head of a Triceratops has a great frill of bone spreading out over the neck from the skull proper, like a collar, and acting as protection against the carnivorous animals which lived in that period. They once roamed the eastern uplift of the Rocky Mountains from Alberis to New mexico in great members and many skeletal remains have been found...