Word: bolstered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lumps? After his troops the Jap sent engineers, chemists, industrialists. They drained off food supplies, created inflation by "military yen," adjusted exports to Japan of food and war supplies in exchange for paper, piece goods and children's toys. To bolster Asiatic predominance, radio, press and education were revamped to the Jap's liking; the Japanese calendar was introduced...
...result referred to: a promise from Ottawa to bolster Canada's West Coast defenses, a visit by Defense Minister Ralston and Air Minister Power, subsequent steps to fulfill the promise...
...bolster Crimson hopes tomorrow, Coach Floyd Stahl revealed that slugging Sophomore Ned Fitzgibbons will be back at first for the Terrier game. Fitzgibbons was fully recovered from his sore throat yesterday afternoon and just to prove it drove out a homer in the intra-squad scrimmage...
...absence, however, will be partly compensated for by the return of Tom Holyoke, who will be broad-jumping for the first time since the Dartmouth meet last winter. He and the speedily-improving Ted Bauer, who is hurdling and high-jumping as well, should bolster this department, formerly the weakest spot in the field events roster...
...story, as it was finally told, the Navy had nothing to be ashamed, much of high courage to remember. To bolster Java's defenses, the old Langley (born the collier Jupiter 29 years ago, transformed into the first U.S. carrier, finally reduced to a drudge's job) was loaded with fighters...