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Word: bolstered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Right & Left. Obviously, Mr. King, who in 1921 deftly maneuvered the old Progressive Party into the Liberal fold, would like nothing better than to bolster his party now by absorbing the socialists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION: To Two Parties? | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

United States industrial aid to China should attempt to raise that country's standard of living, not bolster the status of reactionaries and power politicians, John K. Fairbank '29, associate professor of History and former director of the U. S. Information Services in China, asserted yesterday in a broadcast over WEEI...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fairbank Asks Aid to Chinese Citizens, Not To Power Politicians | 1/17/1947 | See Source »

...Navy's great Antarctic expedition ploughed southward last week. It would bolster U.S. territorial claims,* investigate sites for military bases, train personnel to cope with icecap conditions. But it would also study the almost unknown Antarctic continent with elaborate, modern instruments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mysteries of Antarctica | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

...Veterans make their own fun." Mrs. Elsie Stapleton, budget expert, who recently toured the Graduate Schools on a survey of government financed education. declared yesterday. But what they need she warned was not entertainment or even budgeting. but a larger income to bolster their allotments already stretched thin by their large families...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Money-Shy Vets Keep Devens Mrs. in Healthy Condition | 12/12/1946 | See Source »

...week's end a placatory 35% wage increase had been granted; the works projects continued. To bolster Premier de Gasperi's Government's sagging morale, word came that the U.S. would send $50 million to reimburse the Italians for lire lent to the U.S. Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Blood in the Palace | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

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