Word: lifting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...together that it would be well nigh impossible to duplicate for uniformity in style and general excellence... The work done by the crew during the two months they have been in the boat, has had the effect of perfecting them in uniformity of time, and there is plenty of 'lift' to the boat when on the stroke...
...which ought not to miss getting into print. At the recent fire in the Cambridge car-shops, in Dunster street, one of the engineers wanted help in raising a ladder, and, seeing a man standing on the sidewalk near by, he called to him, "Here, you, give us a lift." The man responded with alacrity, and a moment later when the engineer took a better look at him he discovered that his assistant was President Eliot of Harvard University. An apology was begun, but the president graciously declared it was all right and he was only too glad...
WHAT IS A KISS?Scientifically considered, a hearty kiss resembles in principle nothing so much as the action by which the lump-sucker fish attaches itself to a stone, or that of the leather "suckers" with which urchins delight to lift pebbles. The lips of the kisser are pressed against those of the kissee, a slight exhaustion of air is caused by a "drawing" action on the part of the agent active, and the two actors in the farce are temporarily attached to each other by the pressure of the external air. The kisser ceases to exhaust the air within...
...Lift the shadowing veil...