Word: bolstered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such situation, the shotgun prescription has been-keep all railroads operating; the I. C.C. guarantees a "fair return" of 5 3/4% on income to all; the I. C. C. must "foster and preserve in full vigor" the steam roads; profiting lines must yield parts of their over-earnings to bolster up their weak sister lines (Transportation Act of 1920). The 300 astute gentlemen at Dallas awaited Mr. Loree's blast at this transportation doctrine. He told them bluntly what was what...
...means to the Memorial Church, built in Georgian Design and holding 1600 students, so that a suitable memorial may stand for the fallen dead of the late war, a memorial quite impressive no doubt in its silence and emptiness unless the Yale system of compulsory chapel be adopted to bolster up our flaggu a religious attendance. Then, with the hand of force behind the student body we will be marched into a place where we can sit down an meditate over the sacrifice of the fallen, and of the graduates' contributions...
Amyas Ames, Eduardo Andrade, W. C. Atwater, R. C. Beresford, R. McP. Blair-Smith, R. D. Bolster, S. I. Bowditch, H. W. Bragdon, L. D. Brayton, J. G. Buckley, W. M. Bumps, J. P. Chase, E. F. Clark, F. B. Cutts, Franklin Dexter, D. P. Donaldson, J. C. Dreier, Ogden Driggs, R. T. Dunn, Erlund Field, A. O. Fordyce, D. L. Garirson, W. C. Harris, H. E. Heard, H. N. Higinbotham, R. B. Hocking, A. A. Holbrook, T. D. Howe Jr. R. I. Hunneman, W. R. Huntington, E. R. Jackson, V. O. Jones, W. B. Jones, R. K. Lamb...
...when the Deputies voted down Finance Minister Doumer's "sales tax" clause in the long: disputed Finance Bill. (TIME, Jan. 4 et seq.) Under the circumstances, both President Doumergue and former Premier Herriot, leader of the potent Cartel des Gauches (coalition of Left Parties) decided that, in order to bolster up French prestige before the world, M. Briand must be instantly reinstalled as Premier and permitted to carry on his foreign policy before the League. M. Doumergue courteously went through the form of asking M. Herriot to form a Cabinet, since custom did not allow him to call upon...
...effort to bolster an apparently languishing enterprise by timely criticism and amendment a Student Council committee has investigated the status of the new student waiter system in Gore Hall. Frankly acknowledging that the outcome of last fall's innovation has been unsatisfactory thus far, the Committee offers pertinent suggestions to forestall complete failure. If its recommendations are accepted and they prove salutary, as there seems every reason to expect, the Committee will have performed a service of the first importance...