Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Booster" is an auxiliary steam engine which, place under the cab, drives the trailer wheels and gives the locomotive a boost. It is especially useful in starting heavy trains and in climbing grades at low speed when the boiler is generating more steam than the main cylinders...
...race with Yale was never in doubt. J. N. Watters of Winchester, the Harvard anchor man, finishing with a halflap advantage in the fast time of 8 minutes, 11 and 2-5 seconds. The M. I. T. one-mile relay was a closer affair, the Crimson being able to boost the lead to only 12 yards at the finish...
...mile relay was a closer race. Although the Crimson took the pole at the sound of the gun and never once lost it, Brooks, Rogers, Robb, and Captain Merrill successively could boost the lead to no more than 12 yards...
Three weeks later (TIME, Jan. 14), the time limit set upon Premier Mussolini's dictatorship expired. The Premier made no comment. Pre-election commentators received a boost and went on writing about the next election. That...
...people knew how many supporters of Biram Johnson for President there are in Harvard University I believe they would be surprised," declared the chairman of the Johnson mass meeting in the Union last night to the ten men assembled to boost the presidential chances of the Senator from California in Massachusetts...