Word: bolstered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard eights go to Ithaca for their regatta with Cornell and Syracuse with great hopes behind them for a victory there. Should either crew win, it would bolster the Crimson chances against Yale on June 20 considerably. Coach Whiteside is also, in this regatta, looking forward to matching his crews with those of Syracuse, whose eights he has not faced since he left the Orange to coach the Crimson...
Since last fall's depression, President Hoover has tried to bolster up business with optimistic proclamations that conditions are improving, that industry will soon be back to normal (TIME, March 17). Other public men have caught the White House cue. When it was found last week by the Bureau of Labor Statistics that February employment had risen one-tenth of 1% over January, this headline followed...
...held up by a gang of masked bandits who later returned loot to the judge's friends (TIME, Jan. 6). The New York Bar Association investigated Vitale's conduct and found, as LaGuardia had charged, that he had negotiated a $20,000 unsecured loan from Rothstein to bolster up a sagging margin account. The Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court last week heard the charge against Vitale, listened to his defense that the Rothstein loan was "a pure matter of business," found him guilty of conduct tending to "bring his court into public disrepute and suspicion...
...cartridge belt, the "shooting irons" lent a decorative, masculine, frontier touch to the effeteness of his Cambridge quarters. He had heard about the unique sales arguments of the two vendors of booze, and when the pair arrived in his room one evening, he had an idea of how to bolster his sales resistance...
Altruistic as seems this safety drive, the motormakers are not squandering their money. Fewer old cars will bolster up the used-car market, make turn-ins more attractive, increase new-car sales...