Word: uplifter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nearly done now, though. We thought we'd never get started this year what with all the rain." The only emotional uplift McTernan gets out of serving 311 years of tradition, according to his own account, is wondering what famous person will be up front on Com- mencement...
...glacial era. At that time, it probably took the most obvious shortcut to the ocean at Narragansett Bay, considerably south of its present mouth. In those days, the Charles was just an agglomeration of several smaller streams. Then, only two million years ago, there was a great uplift in the land area followed by a street of glacial ice down from the Arctic. With the gradual recession of the ice, the Charles became a maze of small lakes and streams that were soon afterwards consolidated into one more or less continuous river which cut a new route winding northward...
...OPEN CITY.' The Ottawa Journal clucked like a mother hen: "Toronto is [just] growing up ... taking on the airs and smells and sounds of a big city. We think it will survive." The unkindest smirk of all lit up the Montreal Herald: "We are presently beaver-busy with uplift and the dusting off of our own morals. Sights high, eyes on the target, we are out to blast the canard that Montreal was ever a sinful city. . . . 'Toronto the Good' forsooth. Move over, chum...
Angel on My Shoulder presents Paul Muni as a murdered gangster and Claude Rains as the Devil. Aiming at satire with a touch of uplift, the picture succeeds in being vaguely grisly and definitely foolish. Actor Muni's natural dignity, which prevents him from appearing ridiculous in embarrassing surroundings, is all that saves the movie from disaster...
Cleveland had rarely seen such concerted concern for the uplift of its soul. Evangelists cried out on street corners; windrows of leaflets clogged the city's gutters. Defiant placards atop caravans of clanking autos proclaimed the doom of Satan...