Word: bolster
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attempt to bolster up the bating strength of his team Coach Michell has stationed E. R. Todd '29 the central garden in place of B. Bassett '31 who is in the throes of batting slump...
...graduate committee, it was announced, will have a two-fold purpose, to bolster up the ailing financial status of the Council, and to aid in the experimental innovations which the Harvard teams are attempting: The Council has at present a deficit...
What Mr. Mellon's purpose was in this (for him) extraordinary remark, remained a mystery. Perhaps he wanted to let Senators McKellar, Couzens et al. know, in a delicate way, that the Secretary of the Treasury was still quite sure of himself. Or, perhaps again, he wanted to bolster the Federal Reserve Board's campaign against stock speculation loans. Or, perhaps a third time, there was a connection between the statement and the condition of U. S. Government bonds. The Treasury's quarterly financing of March 15 had been barely oversubscribed despite an interest rate...
...Revolution, Senor Don Gilberto Valenzuela, must have devoutly wished himself back at the Court of St. James's, strutting again in silk knee breeches with a cordon across his chest as Mexican Envoy Extraordinary & Minister Plenipotentiary. Instead he was desperately striving in the state of Sonora, first to bolster up civilian support for the army of his chief-of-staff, General Gonzalo Escobar, and second with the forlorn project of despatching to President Herbert Hoover a request that the ten most northerly states of Mexico be recognized as having seceded from the Mexican Union, and as constituting the Republica...
...peasants show a manifest hesitation to trust the Fascist declarations that augmented population is needed as part of Mussolini's intended policy of home colonization. I hear that the peasant population is pressing for a pledge that their children, actual and prospective, will not be used to bolster any policy of military adventure...