Word: bolstered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will burst into bellicose balladry for their first appearance upon any stage. A battery of piano-accordions will discharge in a newly-composed Kinder-symphonie, for the last time upon any stage. A variety of vivid divertissements by several stellar scintillants, recruited from the ranks of Dunster democrats, will bolster the bill...
...political rather than fiscal importance was last week's tax news at the White House and the Treasury. Congress, at President Hoover's order, cut the normal income tax rate by 1% for 1929 to bolster business. Business did not respond to the cut. Federal receipts ran down hill. Last week Treasury officials compiled figures, frankly told Pressmen that they were quite helpless about a continuation of the 1% reduction for 1930 incomes. For the first 50 days of this fiscal year, U. S. revenue had fallen off $64,261,211 compared with last year, while expenditures...
Hush! Didst hear the glad tidings? They are to remain staidly reasonable. Long ducks and huge knickers will still suit the fancy. No shades of epic athletes or even Fauntleroys will haunt the Yard. Perhaps it would be wise to bolster the resolution by a vote of appreciation in behalf of The Rest of Us for the great-mindedness which is to uphold the dignity of human sense and sensibility. Suggestions as to the means of such expression are respectfully requested. Mehitable, in The Radcliffe Daily...
...rubber growers of the Far East, May was to have been a pleasant month. After long negotiations, British and Dutch planters had agreed to tap no trees during the entire month (TIME, April 14). So well did they argue the thesis that this simple expedient would bolster the price of rubber throughout the world that native growers, notorious for their usual indifference to such schemes, joined in. But last week, in the middle of the tapping holiday, the planters received a shock. In London, rubber prices started a swift decline, broke their 1921 low, went on to establish...
Last week President Julius Littman, in the company 47 years, gloomily said: ''Now there is no business to speak of with the exception of horseback riding equipment. This is growing . . . but decidedly insufficient to bolster up a company the size of ours...