Word: bolstered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Strong Junior and Sophomore material bolster Johnson's hopes. Bill Daughaday who held down the 165-pound berth in the 1938 season reported yesterday along with Captain Harvey Ross and Louis Ach, both of whom have seen Varsity competition for two years in the 118-1b and 126-lb. positions, respectively...
...opening ceremony Friday evening. Other speakers will be Harry A. Over-street, professor of Philosophy at the College of the City of New York, and author of the best selling books "Influencing Human Behavior" (1925), "About Ourselves" (1927), and "A Guide to Civilized Leisure" (1934), and Charles S. Bolster, of Cambridge, president of the new Center. While admission to this convocation is free, tickets should be secured in advance from the office in Brattle Hall...
...cooperation in Rearmament, decided that Labor will cheerfully continue to earn high wages building British armaments. Cold also was T.U.C. to dire warnings by Delegate J. C. Little of the Amalgamated Engineering Union that in piling up arms under Chamberlain, Labor is making weapons which "would be used to bolster up the Fascist Powers...
Whenever the New Deal gives out a fresh batch of statistics to bolster up some of their pet projects, I am reminded of what Mark Twain said about statistics, "There are lies, damned lies, and statistics...
...years later, the possibility of Cuba's harboring a great oil reservoir is again under investigation. Geologists are examining cores from thousands of feet below the surface; radio seismograph crews are sounding in Cuba's hills. Designed to bolster the island's limited revenues, the new petroleum law passed by the legislature all but forces activity on concessions by requiring each concessionaire to drill within five years at least one well to 4,000 feet unless oil is struck at lesser depth; the alternative to such exploitation is Government confiscation...