Word: bolstered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thursday, March 17, the Freshmen will report for their first spring practice. Coaches who have been away are returning to Cambridge and will be ready for the class of '40 who are expected to bolster many points in the lineup as it stands...
...blue. Up went six slow Austrian army planes in pursuit. Audaciously the skywriter jazzed the municipal airport, disappeared, leaving the army flyers to their humiliation, the populace to speculate on the motive for the deed. Some patriots thought the scribbling pilot was a German agent provocateur sent up to bolster the Nazi thesis that Czechoslovakia is a "Bolshevik outpost." Best explanation: an unreconstructed Austrian Red commemorating Vienna's abortive Socialist-Communist counterrevolution of February...
...boats to reach with their limited gear. Fortunately the shrimps come into shallower water near the shore during the winter, where they can more conveniently be taken. Thus they will probably supply is winter fishery, and a very welcome one to Maine small-boat fishermen, who need something to bolster up their badly depleted lobster industry
This was very nearly all that needed saying about the siege of Madrid, which reached its 31st day this week, but meanwhile Soviet munitions were arriving to bolster the cause of proletarian Premier Francisco Largo Caballero who fled with his Cabinet from Madrid to Valencia (TIME, Nov. 16), and the enormous quantity of gold which his adherents took from the Bank of Spain was beginning to have its effect. It was established last week that disguised Spanish fishing smacks, heavily armed, have been regularly running this gold to Marseille. The Bank of France has been buying it as fast...
...proposal to form the Ivy League is the first and long awaited move to bolster and preserve amateur ideals in college athletics. A barrage of criticism of "professional university teams" has recurred every year since the 1929 Carnegie report, and, this proposal, if put into effect, would meet that criticism, it is felt...