Word: bolstered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Likewise, books such as The Organization Man depict the business world as a most unappetizing set of soul-sellings (how many students have read The Academic Marketplace?). Galbraith describes the businessman as occasionally impotent and occasionally interested in creating an attractive corporate image to bolster his ego, but seldom controlling his own destiny. In terms of attitudes like these, it is more comprehensible that undergraduates should regard the National Merit Scholarship program as a sort of apologia by businessmen who regret their selling out to the non-intellectual world...
Captain Larry Johnson, who normally uses the foil, may fence epee today to bolster the squad. The epee team could tak only one of nine matches against Penn but must come through with several victories today...
These extra Council gimmicks do get publicity and perhaps even bolster the prestige of its members but--more important--they hinder the proper function of the Council; to devote its efforts to pressuring various parts of the community in the name of College undergraduates...
Kennedy promised to do some more by executive action. He would put through a depressed-areas food-stamp plan, cut FHA mortgage rates (from 5¼% to 5½% to bolster the housing market, pay out 1961 veterans' insurance dividends ahead of schedule, and speed up the letting of Government contracts. Cost of the package: something less than $5 billion-not much more than the $4 billion rise in cash outlays that Dwight Eisenhower had projected for fiscal...
Nine or ten half courses for next year and the revival of English I two years from now will bolster the English Department's now-slim list of offerings for undergraduates. But students this spring will still have to choose from the smallest selection of middle group English courses in recent years...