Word: bolsterous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...giving the bankers of his native State a piece of his mind about their business. As chairman of the State Banking Review Board and onetime president of the Bank of Wisconsin (absorbed by Wisconsin Bankshares Corp.), he knew Wisconsin banks at first hand, had long championed legislation to bolster the weaker ones. When he rose to speak, the president of the State Banking Association had just finished damning RFC's practice of buying bank stock as "positively pernicious...
...objectives are a badly-needed new library building and more student scholarships. He is glad that two-fifths of Princeton's 2,500 students are earning part of their expenses and wants more poor but brainy students. Overshadowing all other aims, however, is his desire to expand and bolster his social science departments, prepare businesslike statesmen and statesmanlike businessmen for the era of government in business which he is sure is coming. No more radical than Dodds the educator is Dodds the political expert. One of the few things about which he, a Republican, grows publicly passionate is democracy...
...whose other clients included the late Author Jakob Wassermann and Edouard Herriot. Greenburger, in turn, had been sold by the book's ghostwriter, a onetime lawyer who married a night-club singer friend of Miss Nesbit. Editor Joseph Medill Patterson of the News, who bought the serial to bolster the usual summer circulation slump, proudly announced last week that the feature had upped sales...
From this initial point of departure Mr. Brooks advances with assurance and easy facility. The evidence which he adduces serves to bolster his case well. The spiritual desert upon which we find ourselves in the beginning was made by Jonathan Edwards. "He was able to spin his inept sublimities by subtracting from his mind every trace of experience, every touch of human nature as it really was among his innocent country folk." He was a rapt and isolated scholar whose wrathful theology found no listener in the market place. On the other hand our great Dr. Franklin with his immense...
...after the late Sir John Dewar bought Raeburn's sturdy Highland portrait The M'Nab for ?25.410, his canny Scot mind was beset by doubts concerning his investment. To bolster its value he decided to use reproductions of the famed picture on advertisements of his famed whiskey. The M'Nab now hangs in the Dewar London Office, is occasionally shown to the public...