Word: bolsterous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...instance there are reporters, chart men, statisticians, press announcers, telegraphers, teletype men, and general hangers on. Each Boston paper has a pair of working reporters from the regular staff. But usually outsiders have to be called in to bolster the staff when a half a dozen different games are going on in the vicinity. For this reason students or others are called in the work out the charts of the games, keep the records, and generally help out if the reporters happen to miss a play...
...York papers, the AP, UP, INS, and any other papers use the same system of recruiting to bolster their staffs and help out in general...
...Friday morning the Associated Press carried a story saying that three Yale players "whom Head Coach Ducky Pond had hoped would be available to bolster up the Blue line were "definitely on probation for the season...
...Marry With Love" is no blot on the escutcheons of Warner Baxter or Myrna Loy, for the script's the script--stretch it, pamper it, bolster it as you may. The show starts with the marriage of Baxter and Myrna Loy, he a conscientious, hard-working architect; and she apparently a conventionally affectionate young bride. As the show progressed Baxter remained true to his original type, and to this added occasional drunken sprees which involved him, rather innocently, though not deeply with a gay young thing named Kitty. Naturally this brought chastisement from his wife. But she failed to realize...
...Gaffney, the team has a leader who started every Varsity game last year, and was rarely pulled out. During the 1935 season, he played guard, but was changed to a tackle position during spring practice to bolster up this department, and will continue in this berth...