Word: bolster
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...content with this, Ullman and Howard, the two players who were under the probation ban until yesterday, and whose playing did much to bolster the team, won the game in the next inning. Ullman singled through short stop. Howard connected with the first ball that Bird offered for a phenomenal home run, right into the wind and rods beyond the center-fielder. It was a tremendous blow and sewed up the game for the 1927 nine...
Although there was no practice for the University team yesterday, Coach Slattery will have the whole squad working out this afternoon in preparation for the Bates game tomorrow. The return of Cordingley, who has entirely recovered from his injury and who is now ready to pitch again, will bolster the hurling staff appreciably. Coach Slattery will have all nine of the pitchers whom he has retained in good shape to take the mound assignment tomorrow...
...statement of Mayor Quinn followed the report that Mayor Curley, Mayor Quinn, Chief Justice Wilbur Bolster, Police Commissioner Herbert Wilson, and Censor Casey had visited the second performance of "Sophie" following several complaints at city hall, and had decided that all profanity and several objectional lines must be removed. Mr. Edward Massey '15 is a prominent member of the cast of "Sophie" and is also coach of the forthcoming production of the Dramatic Club play "The Makropolus Secret." Other members of the Harvard Dramatic Club and the 47 Workshop also figure prominently in the Stage Guild production...
...capacity long before the performance began. On Monday evening there had been but a scattering audience, some 50 or more bona fide spectators, a row of newspaper reporters, and Mayor Curley's investigating party, which consisted, in addition to the mayors of Boston and Cambridge, of Chief Justice Wilbur Bolster, Police Commissioner Herbert A. Wilson, and John M. Casey, city censor and clerk in the mayor's office...
...fair return." The rate of a fair return has been fixed by the Commission at 5.75% per annum. The moneys received by the Government under this provision of the Act are placed in a fund from which loans are made and equipment leased to railways, the purpose being to bolster up the weaker roads with part of the excess earnings of the stronger roads...