Word: bolster
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...visitor was so impressed that he burst forth in verse, using ingenious outvotes to bolster up the muse...
...give up baseball for spring football, and of Samborski, the condition of whose throwing arm is still problematical, leaves plenty of work for Coach Mahan to fill the vacant berths. On the other hand, the 66 candidates who reported on Monday include a number of promising players who should bolster the returning veterans...
Coach Wachter has been working on this new line-up all week in an effort to bolster the attack and perfect the passing game which has been weak so far this season. The game today will be the second and crucial test of the ability of the team to break through their opponent's defense, with the new forward line in action...
Where is the solution? Walter Prichard Eaton is coached in the bed of experience in the theatres, and can thus bolster up his academic conscience with a defiant air. He is, moreover, in harmony with these impulses of a rejuvenated era of artistic expression (witness the fact that he even writes for the New Republic). Last but not least, he has been labelled "approved by" actors, playwrights, and again even by those everlastingly finical and eternal plagues of critics. Could we ask for a better truce? Leo Slafsky...
...starting its first official game. The change, which Coach Wachter believes will be permanent, sends Rauh to the center position which he held on last year's five, while Leekley moves to forward, displacing Jones. The change has been imminent for some time, as something was needed to bolster the attack which has been the chief trouble so far this season. Not only does this change give the quintet added height and weight, factors which were by no means unimportant in the Columbia defeat, but it will practically double the scoring power of the forward line. Jones' passing and clever...