Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...class, Louis Ach has decided to come down one step to vie with Harvey Ross for the 118-1b. place. Ross, former Milten captain and a Junior this year, kept a clean slate in '36, had a medloore record on the Varsity. To boost the 126-1b. class Johnson may have Ach go back to his old position...
...Zuppke was born in Berlin, German years ago. Like many good Germans, Herr Zuppke and wife immigrated to Milwaukee. Their son then just two years old. Sauerkraut and weiners couldn't boost young Bob over 150 pounds; he made the Wisconsin varsity, but he proudly broke his collar bone trying. He joined Kappa Sigma. His coaching post was at Muskegon, Mich...
...across the tank. Under this influence the deuterons in the centre start to move outward. The effect of the big magnet is to pull them in circles. Just as they complete a half-circle the voltage is reversed, so that they get a kick of 50,000 volts to boost them around the other side of the circle at higher speed. After another half-circle the reversed voltage hits them again, and so on. The deuterons go spiraling outward, faster and faster, toward the rim of the tank. After being kicked 100 times by 50,000 volts, they attain speeds...
...turn he was a sub-district president, later Ohio district president, by 1912 Union secretary-treasurer. Meantime he had served two terms in the Ohio Senate, where, as Democratic floor leader, he gained a reputation as a labor liberal. Up to the time John L. Lewis helped boost him into the A. F. of L. presidency, the most conspicuous ability he had demonstrated was the ability to avoid making enemies...
...these and similar reasons railroad executives at a meeting in Washington of the Association of American Railroads decided to ask the Interstate Commerce Commission for a general boost of freight rates and passenger fares as soon as the I.C.C. settles the pending petition for higher rates for certain commodities. Reason: this has become the only solution visible to railroad men for the problem of zooming operating costs. Along the U. S. railroad right-of-way, signal after signal continued turning ominously...