Word: boosting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...department's teachers seems to me to lose much of its value when the students who are called upon to give their opinion are chosen by the department itself, and when some of the men who are thus selected to represent undergraduate, opinion avowedly express their intention to 'boost their tutor...
...traffic arrangement in Harvard Square, which was inaugurated yesterday morning at 10 o'clock, succeeds, it will be a great boost to Einstein's theory that a curved line, keeping to the right, is the quickest distance between two points...
...Ernest Sutherland Bates. Mr. Carlson, a University of Chicago researcher, collaborated last year with Mr. Bates, onetime literary editor of the Dictionary of American Biography, on five articles about Mr. Hearst which appeared in the Leftist magazine Common Sense. The series gave Common Sense's circulation such a boost that Authors Carlson & Bates sensed they had a good thing, expanded their journalistic findings into a 332-page book...
...teachers seems to me to lose much of its value when (1) the students who are called upon to give their opinion are chosen by the department itself, and (2) when some of the men who are thus selected to represent undergraduate opinion avowedly express their intention to "boost their tutor...
...Depression's low Westinghouse sales declined 69%, GE sales 67%. And while Westinghouse was unable to make any money for three years, GE managed to show a $13,000,000 profit even in 1933. GE's profit for last year was $27,000,000, inspiring a boost in quarterly dividend payments on its 28,800,000 shares from...