Word: bolster
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pound Crew A--Stroke, James de Normandie '29; 7, H. W. Bragdon '28: 6, W. I. Gregg '29; 5, R. D. Bolster '28; 4, F. E. Farnsworth '29; 3, F. B. Lee '29; 2, J. A. Swords '29; bow, O. S. Staples '30; cox., L. L. Wadsworth...
Stroke--James De Normandie '29: 7, H. W. Bragdon '28, 6, W. I. Gregg '29: 5, R. D. Bolster '28; 4, F. E. Farnsworth '29; 3, F. B. Lee '29; 2, J. A. Swords '29; bow, D. S. Staples '30; cox., R. H. Miller '30. The substitutes that will make the trip are; A. M. Pappenheimer '28, and C. O. Tuck...
...chief sensation of the polling centred around War Minister Paul Painleve, who has twice been ousted from the Prime Ministry since the last election and was thought last week to be in danger of losing his seat as a Deputy. In the nick of time there arrived to bolster up his candidacy the two least likely persons imaginable: Dieudonné Costes and Joseph Lebrix, famed 'round-the-world aviators (TIME, April...
...James was a bright, bedtimish story about Italia Bella, no longer famed lioness with which Il Duce was once wont to pose and gambol publicly (TIME, Dec. 27, 1926). Moral of the tale: Signer Mussolini is now so unshakably in power that he no longer needs to bolster up the legend of his invincibility by posing in a lion's cage...
...wound in his foot. He had shot himself. An insurance company paid him $5,000 for the loss of a toe. Something told him where to put the money; not into the drug business, but into "mud sills," the big logs men were using then in Kansas to bolster their oil derricks...