Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whoever wrote your penetrating and devastating analysis of Salazar's dictatorship gave a good boost to the cause of democracy. No dictator can be quite sure of his job while free men can wield such...
Last week Martin Browne's R.D.S. gave the cause an added boost. It helped out the Sheffield City Training College in a week-long course in religious drama, joined in instructions and demonstrations that ranged from how to walk on stage to how to produce a play. Said one bespectacled girl: "It's been 100%. Absolutely something for everyone." Sheffield's school was the biggest practical effort the R.D.S. has seen so far. Its success has already led to planning courses like it in three other cities...
...Senate last week. Senator David I. Walsh, his eye on the November election, proposed a raise in the allotment from 65 dollars to 90, and from 90 to 115 dollars. On the basis of the 1,700,000 veterans now in college or on-the-job training, such a boost would cost the Federal Government an extra half a billion dollars annually...
...spoke Walter P. Burrier '50, of Lowell House, one of the numerous young song composers in the United States who is striving to get his works published. "A College orchestra could do a lot to boost compositions by its own undergraduates," he explained...
There was little hope that Army discharges, now past their peak, would supply the needed men. Nor would the pool of unemployed; it was already down to 2,000,000. The hard fact was that the U.S. could not boost production much higher if it needed many more hands to do it. But it could if those at work did a better job. The hope now was for increased labor efficiency, like post...