Word: bolstering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Director Arnold Lucius Gesell of Yale's famed Clinic of Child Development, writing in Scientific Monthly for December, gave Darwin credit for these experiments, because, in trying to bolster up his theory of man's lowly origin, Darwin gave a tremendous push to the infant science of infant behavior. Still a source book for child psychologists is Darwin's A Biographic Sketch of an Infant, published...
Davidge was replaced at right full by Roger Oresman, who was hampered by a lack of experience, it is possible that Carr will be forced to return either Ives or Edgar to fullback to bolster the defense. Ives up till last week had been playing full, while Edgar had been at half...
Dick Harlow immediately drafted George Downing from the rapidly improving end squad and converted him into a guard. The loss of Sargeant left the guard positions slightly undermanned, and the big Senior end should bolster up this point...
...score contrasts miserably with the 5-0 total run up by last year's championship squad against the same team, and Coach Jack Carr was far from satisfied with his team's showing. In an attempt to bolster up its ailing offense, he made a number of personnel changes in the course of the game so that there was no static lineup, especially in the forward line...
...will do in case Russia alone or Russia and Germany or Germany alone should now decide to invade the Balkans. Stalin was reputedly pressing Saracoglu to agree that in any event Turkey would bar the British and French fleets from passing through the Dardanelles into the Black Sea to bolster up the Balkans. And in Ankara this same demand was vigorously made by German Ambassador Franz von Papen...