Word: boosting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...employers and employees in the particular business in which the improvement is installed. During the reign of free competition in the nineteenth century it was generally assumed that the employer had a right to all the profit he could make. Faced by a mass of competitors he could not boost the price and thereby make the public pay. But with the growth of organized labor came a demand from the workers that all payment should be at a standard rate, and hence that the profit on inventions should be solely theirs...
...Pennsylvania State College, also, the military authorities have issued an order that all members of the S. A. T. C. must participate in some form of out-door sport. As a result, a large majority of the men chose football, thereby giving that sport a great boost in the college. Baseball received second choice, and tennis, third choice, as shown by the number of men that came out for each...
...Both Yale and Princeton intend to do the boost they can with the facilities that exist in order to build up a crew, and with good sport as a guiding star, to enter as many events as is compatible with economy and the endurance of the oarsmen. The crews will probably not have a formal training table, although supervision of food will be given, and work in military science and rowing on alternate days will take care of the men's condition...
...give the bonds now to the Y. M. C. A. Hut Fund, and so make the sacrifice a genuine one? Whether you receive a liberal allowance from home or are earning every penny of your money; whether you have Liberty Bonds or not, get behind the Red Triangle. Boost Harvard's contribution well over...
Little has happened in the University that the staff photographers of the Illustrated didn't "catch." The current number, dated October 22 and appearing on time, is jammed with timely photographs. From the bond advertisement on the front cover to the patent medicine boost on the back, there are words and pictures for all constant subscribers to think over and look over seriously...