Word: bolstered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...burden of this criticism must be shouldered by a lecture system which operates on the theory that students are constitutionally incapable of absorbing facts from books, and that a Professor must therefore deliver two or three lectures a week in the effort to bolster up whatever opinions he may have with a body of elementary fact. For evidence that the result is horrid, one need only look to such courses as Government 1, History 11, English 28. One might continue; but a typical list would fill a column. Compelled by regulation, and by a false notion of undergraduate capacity...
Designed to be in effect only until Feb. 1, to collect $25,000,000 to bolster the city's credit, the Untermyer taxes were...
...stock. By the spring of 1930 the loan had been cut to $6,000,000 but the stockmarket had hardly begun its great decline. Thereafter every few months Mr. Mitchell would dig more stock certificates from his strong box, send more fat bundles to the House of Morgan to bolster the loan. Into the Morgan vaults, batch by batch, went tens of thousands of shares. When his strong box was clean he turned over mortgages on his three homes. Last week he still owed J. P. Morgan & Co. $5,852,538.38 which the collateral fails to cover by about...
...premises, now insists that Mr. Solomon's organization has "damnified" its temple. The Christ Temple Pentecostal Church gently but firmly suggests that the indemnifying process will cost the Cotton Club just twenty thousand dollars. This sum is calculated to soothe the "outraged confidence" of its communicants, and to bolster up the "lost morale" of the Church...
...regulation, next as to consolidation, lately as alleged sufferers from competition by trucks, buses, pipelines, airplanes. When their earnings contracted in Depression and not only dividends but bond interest became endangered, money was obtained from the R. F. C.-about $600,000,000 in all now-to bolster the railroads. And in September the biggest stakeholders, including 68 insurance, companies and four great universities, asked five leading citizens to head a committee of inquiry. Coolidge was named chairman. Alexander Legge (International Harvester) represented Republican industrialists. Alfred E Smith. Bernard Mannes Baruch and Clark Howell (Atlanta Constitution) were chosen as Democrats...