Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thoroughly unpredictable varsity basketball team will attempt to boost its record above .500 tomorrow night when it meets a better-than-average M.I.T. squad. Gametime at the Engineers...
...quarter of the boost would go to U.S. guided missile development, which has so far got into production the relatively short-range Nike, Terrier, Sparrow, Falcon, Corporal. Regulus, Matador and Honest John. The 1,000-to-1,500 mile range Intermediate Range Ballistics Missile with nuclear warhead, still on the drawing boards, would probably be the main new development. Research would also be heavily concentrated on the Intercontinental Ballistics Missile, which may have a thermonuclear warhead. Wilson cautioned that the I.C.B.M. is still at least five years away...
...Communists now behind bars for Smith Act violations. The signers: Eleanor Roosevelt, Socialist Party Patriarch Norman Thomas, News Commentator Elmer Davis, plus 43 other citizens, about half of them Protestant divines. A "Christmas amnesty" for the Reds, the petition argued, would help prove U.S. confidence in democratic institutions, boost the reputation of the U.S. abroad, and "contribute toward peace in the world." Meanwhile, in her monthly Q. & A. column ("if you ask me") in McCall's magazine, Petitioner Roosevelt was Q'd as to which eligible Republican, not counting Dwight Eisenhower, she would find "most tolerable" as President...
Ochsner's bullpen clinics made the impression that he wanted. That was in 1927. Now some 3,000 physicians, graduated from his surgery classes, are practicing in Louisiana and neighboring states. He has done much to boost the level of medi calpractice throughout the Deep South, and thus fortified a great Tulane tradition. For its chair of surgery is the most noted south of St. Louis and one of the most influential...
...books, some very expensive, sold extremely well, and some of them were of major importance (e.g., The Penguin History of Art Series). Supermarkets sold dictionaries and encyclopedias by the hundreds of thousands. Enough people were worried by Why Johnny Can't Read to boost it way up on the bestseller lists; not enough were interested in challenging reading to do as much for Walter Lippmann's The Public Philosophy, a disputatious essay on the need of natural law at democracy's base...