Word: bolstered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sports illustrated singles out Peter G. Briggs and Robert T. Shaunessey as freshman football stars most likely to bolster the varsity lineup next year. The magazine's latest issue says that Harvard will get "help where it needs it most, in the line, particularly from Pete Briggs and Bob Shaunessey...
...Washington and new embassies and consulates abroad. The new federal school-construction program (see EDUCATION) requires a substantial down payment on the $2 billion to be spent over the next five years, and the National Science Foundation needs a 156% raise (to $41 million) to finance basic research and bolster the nation's supply of trained scientists...
...Weiland has bet any money on the game, he isn't telling. He did say, however, that the rousing win over Providence has done a good deal to bolster team confidence. The Crimson has lost one of its last 21 Ivy League games. "Brown is our biggest threat," Weiland observed...
...spent $22 billion and took 140,000 casualties in the Korean war. Since war's end. the U.S. has contributed another $2 billion to rehabilitate South Korea and bolster its army. This was not enough for Syngman Rhee, whose mismanaged economy is in trouble and in need of money. His bill, submitted in infinite, frequently faulty detail, asks $471.7 million for U.N. use of land during the Korean...
...also bought G.M. stock (G.M. stock went from $82 to a high of $558 within a year). Thus he gained control of G.M. and added Chevrolet to the corporation. Meanwhile, the Du Ponts had become large G.M. stockholders, and when Durant went under in the 1920 crash (trying to bolster the price of G.M. stock), they bought...