Word: boost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brothers employed able professional players for the scrimmage scenes, and also succeeded in lightening the romance by typical, though well-chosen, sophomoric wisecracks. Though roommates Benny Baker and Tom Brown carry most of the scenes, the same Eleanore Whitney whose star faded so suddenly this summer gives herself a boost back up the ladder in this grid Irony romance...
...fashion and investigate the School of City Planning which has only eleven members. If they canvass that institution as they did the Law School, only four men need vote, and if they should be Democrats, victory is assured. Again the School of Landsape Architecture with its 19 members would boost the Democratic supporters to their hasty conclusions just as well...
...August 1935, before the last boost of taxes took effect, Mr. Straus hastily gave away 52,000 shares of stock-about one quarter of his holdings in Manhattan's great Straus department store...
...Edward VIII bore in manly silence the fact that eight out of nine British planes which took off on the recent race to South Africa failed to arrive (TIME, Oct. 12). At the first opportunity, Salesman Edward's private secretary Major Hon. Alexander Hardinge released for publication this boost: "The King will be glad if the Secretary of State will convey to Squadron-Leader Swain his Majesty's congratulations on his fine achievement in breaking the altitude record with all-British equipment." Part of Hero Swain's equipment was a new type of air-tight rubber "Safety...
Among those who have lived up to or give promise of living up to promise are Cyrus C. Decoster, Jr. '37, John Erhard '38, and Henry Marcy, who gets a special boost from Jaakko. Francis Rivinus, a dogged worker from the Junior class, still has some work to do before he hits the top, while Charley Worth, always a dependable performer, is plodding along with the best of them...