Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...possibly be classed as factual reporting. You gave the mischievous impression that I slyly maneuvered the Legion into placing that film in the "C" or condemned classification for the sake of box-office stimulation, when you said that I "guessed, correctly, that Legion disapproval would whet public pruriency and boost attendance." Your guess as to my guess was completely wrong as to the facts. Let me state these facts...
...blessing of New Hampshire's peppery Senator Charles W. Tobey. Ike's blessing was not legally required. The eight New Hampshire delegates would cut little ice at the Republican convention, but a smashing victory in this primary, the nation's first, would be a big boost to any man's chances for the nomination...
Local hockey followers got a surprise boost last night when Boston College edged Dartmouth's championship sextet 4 to 3, at the Arena...
Last Tuesday's announcement by the Schlitz Brewery of Milwaukee of a price boost of two or three cents on each quart of beer will soon be followed by Blatz and also all eastern breweries, such as Narragansett, Harvard. Bowdoin, Ballentine, Ruppert...
...made cyclotrons work by making electrically charged particles (such as deuterons) circle faster & faster inside a vacuum chamber. On each trip around, they get two boosts from a rapidly alternating electrical field. If the vacuum chamber were big enough, they might move in straight lines and pick up their energy from one long boost...