Word: bolsterous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morale of an unemployed family, a radio is an important bolster. It is the chief recreation of the family group. It is also a means to parental control, keeps children off the streets, even gets them peaceably tucked in nights on the promise that they can "listen in bed." Loss of the radio from unemployed homes in most cases was considered a final, crushing misfortune...
...principally that an offender loses his accrued cash allowances. In the main, discipline is a matter of persuasion and good administrative sense on a C. O.'s part-good training for officers used to rule the easy way by command alone. Aside from a wise C. O., best bolster to CCC morale is promotion: a company of 200 may include twelve group leaders, 18 assistants from the ranks. Topnotchers may win salaried jobs as assistant technicians...
Despite this heavy drain, the price of sterling remained steady-which was not surprising since England has lately taken far-reaching steps to bolster her money. First such step came three weeks ago when the British Government transferred at one fell swoop ?350,000,000 in gold from the Bank of England to the British Exchange Equalisation Fund, whose purpose is to control the price of sterling in the world's markets. This left the Bank of England in the weakest position in seven years, with gold holdings of ?223,000,000. At the old parity price...
...Atlantic and Caribbean, and a ceremonial visit to the New York World's Fair of 1939, were planned over a year ago, before Franklin Roosevelt and the U. S. people became ultra-conscious of Europe and South America. Now the fleet's move has another significance: to bolster the President's "continental solidarity," and remind Europe's fascists that the U. S. is still a major power in the Atlantic...
Coach Cappy Cappon of Princeton was an interested spectator at the game, and what he saw should not make him too pessimistic about his Tigers' chances in the Indoor Athletic Building this Saturday. The Crimson, however, are determined to bolster up their defense for their Wednesday night opener in the Eastern Intercollegiate League against Cornell's Big Red at Ithaca...