Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weather on the morning of Tuesday, June 22, made it wholly impracticable to attempt the raising. No diving could be done. The FALCON (salvage tug) had to be moored with her bow over the stern of the S-51 to enable her to stay in position long enough to boost the pontoons sufficiently to make up for the overnight leakage and to maintain them "as they were" until the wind and sea should moderate. The bow pontoons had not yet been boosted when the bow was found to be coming...
...other deny to U.S. artists legislative benefits of a kind long enjoyed by manufacturers-were to be remedied by the passage of a new bill, containing an automatic, blanket copyright feature, framed by Representative Albert H. Vestal of that most profusely literary state, Indiana. Also in Washington to boost this bill were Novelist Will Irwin, Songwriter Gene (Follies) Buck, Laborite Matthew Woll, Hearstling Karl Kirchwey...
...send to appreciative friends copies of TIME when I have completed reading an issue. But I lose courage at the last minute. ... I must retain all copies for a second and possible third reading. Many articles possess too much genuine value and interest for a single perusal. So I boost TIME in another way ... in letters...
...meeting of the American Women's Association was held last week in Madison Square Garden, Manhattan.* The purpose was to boost the Association's campaign to raise $2,000,000 for a great women's clubhouse. Some 10,000 women were present. Part of the publicity was to make honorary members of 49 women?one from each state and from the District of Columbia...
Major Craig is vagabonding to History 32b at 11 o'clock this morning, and I shall wander to the New Lecture Hall to hear him, thinking of what a boost Mt. Auburn Street humor will have some fifty years from now unless the name of that edifice is changed. Major Craig is to lecture on the military tactics and strategy of the Civil...