Word: bolster
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to Senate debaters, the time-limit would mean ships of steel; its removal, ships of paper. Complaint was made that if the three-year provision were dropped the new fleet would remain at the blue-print stage indefinitely. To bolster this argument it was recalled that in 1924 Congress authorized eight cruisers, none of which is yet completed, due to slow White House action...
Docket number 122 is the Powell Club (Burnam, Bolster) versus the Magruder Club (Lamy, Kelly). The meeting will be in Austin Hall East with T. R. Wickersham 3L as chief justice...
Docket number 121 is the Powell club (Burnam, Bolster) versus the Margruder Club (Lamy, Kelly). The meeting will be in Austin Hall East with T. R. Wickersham 3L as chief justice...
...placing the rubber stamp of official censorship on the Harvard Dramatic Club's play, "Fiesta", the Boston city authorities have adduced evidence to bolster the suspicion of their fair-minded intelligence in matters which they say affect public morality. Their action clicked with that quick efficiency which is prompted by eagerness, or at least by a thorough relish...
...boost hospitals higher on their toes the College of Surgeons last week insisted that hospitals follow up their patients for six months after discharge. This is to make certain what good, or ill, the hospital does to its clients. Another bolster is the requirement that all approved hospitals hold staff meetings at least once a month and make doctors explain just why any of their patients died...