Word: bolsterous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, however, the Post took a more overt step than any of its expensive promotion, to bolster falling circulation. It cut the price of its 5? Saturday rotogravure edition...
...decision by Field Judge C. L. Bolster ?which gave Cornell the ball on Columbia's 11-yd. line for interference?and a brilliant pass (Ferraro to Joe Martinez to Zorrilla) accounted for Cornell's 13 to 0 victory over the team which beat Dartmouth last fortnight...
They needed luck. To bolster British finances Great Britain had already been forced to draw some $20,000,000 of the $200,000,000 credit raised last fortnight in the U. S. Superstitious Britons watched for the return of a great black cormorant which had appeared from nowhere the afternoon of Aug. 11, just as Britain's troubles were becoming acute, and roosted ominously every night for five nights on the cross atop the dome of St. Paul...
...Donovan used to bolster his slender income by playing dummy in big real estate deals. For a modest fee, he would sign the mortgage bonds on a property and then deed the property to the real buyer. Thus, if the mortgage were foreclosed and if the amount realized by the foreclosure sale were not enough to cover the mortgage, Mr. Donovan alone would be liable for the difference. It is a shrewd method which big real estate operators can only use to limit their legal liability on obligations they assume. So long as Mr. Donovan signed only first mortgage bonds...
...Scotland. In 1926 a Morgan loan helped save the French franc from collapsing. In 1925 a Morgan bond issue of $100,000,000 helped pull Italy from grave financial difficulties. Four months ago a $60,000,000 international loan, engineered by Morgan, was offered to Royalist Spain to bolster the peseta. The House of Morgan underwrote part of the German Government 5½s in 1930. But in all the conferences, statements, interviews about Germany's greatest crisis, the name of Morgan has not once appeared...