Word: bolstered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Feloney, while Lew Preston has passed up the honor of playing for the Crimson to cast his lot with the A.A.U. Olympic pretenders. On the positive side of the ledger, ace defenseman Charlic Coulter has recovered from pneumonia and is ready to resume his duties, John Monroe will bolster the goal-guarding staff, Jack Carman is up from the freshman team, and Chase has hopes for the return Bill Garrity to duty...
From Yuri Zhukov, Pravda's expert on the U.S., Russian women got the party line on the New Look. Longer skirts for U.S. women, Zhukov reported, were a desperate effort of industrialists to bolster the shaky American economy and stave off depression. He wrote: "There is no trick left that American merchants have not resorted to in their striving to sell goods...
Smoker expenses may call for an unprecedented amount of monetary aid this year with a seemingly unavoidable $125 charge for the use of Memorial Hall heading the list. Other anticipated liabilities pose the possibility of a nominal door-charge to bolster limited funds...
...bolster his charge, Congressman Taber produced an impressive list of valuable exports: machine tools, railway stock, electric generators, mining and industrial machinery. It was impressive enough to touch off a House committee hearing this week. But John Taber, as usual, was overstating his case. Shipments to Russia this year were a drop in the U.S. export bucket: 1.1% of the total. He also seemed to have his laws and figures crossed...
Acting to bolster the sagging Student Council Service Fund Drive, University officials ruled yesterday that students may use coupon books to make contributions...