Word: uplifts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...schools of design come, with intervals of centuries between, by slow evolution, and can no more be created out of whole cloth than new social orders or systems of government. The problem of this great shaft cried aloud for some form of Gothic treatment and the soaring sense of uplift achieved more than justifies it." But that Cass Gilbert could also achieve complete simplicity in mass was proved by his enormous warehouse for the Army in Brooklyn...
...There many a one had her first chance to see a pleasant-faced Dutchwoman who is the distaff equivalent of the Y. M. C. A.'s Dr. John R. Mott- president of the World Council which supervises the shelter, polite recreation and moral uplift of 1,000,000 women in 50 nations. Jonkvrouwe Cornelia M. van Asch van Wyck, 44, is a member of an ancient Utrecht family which has produced magistrates, deputies, mayors, a provincial president and a founder of the University of Utrecht. She has worked among girls for 25 years. Unsalaried, she presides over committee meetings...
...down to legal brass tacks with specific changes which he thought should be made in the Banking Act of 1933. His proposals had not only a strong legal but a strong moral tenor, natural to a brother-in-law of John D. Rockefeller Jr. Important Aldrich suggestions for the uplift of banking...