Word: boosting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...partly account for the delicate sympathy of The Wooden Pillow, whose author is an Englishman. But even the most arrant xenophobe could find little to feed his fears on and much to touch his Western conscience in Carl Fallas' gossamer tale. Japanese travel bureaus would be shrewd to boost The Wooden Pillows sales. Cynics may suspect that the land Author Fallas writes of is more Utopian than Japanese, but even cynics will succumb temporarily to its charm...
Significance. Though the cotton contract calls for a crop reduction of 30% to 45% below normal, it does not represent as stiff a cut as has been demanded by Southern Senators who want to boost the price of cotton. This fact, in conjunction with the smaller reduction in corn planting and no reduction at all in hog raising, indicates AAA's present belief that farm prices are not likely to flop, that those who want still higher prices are less to be feared than the loss of markets, the howls of consumers...
...basement corridors to use as cots for those temporarily incapacitated during house dances. It will be noticed that the mattresses are no longer in use, nor have they been for some years. This would indicate that the situation has improved. Should any extra-heavy boot be used to boost John over, the fence when he is already being ushered ceremoniously, if slowly, out of the yard gate? Guy Garland...
...next few years Marx studied jurisprudence, Greek philosophy, Hegel, wrote his doctoral dissertation on Democritus and Epicurus, came into conflict with the Prussian censor, became widely known in radical intellectual circles. At the age of 24 he was editor of a radical paper in Cologne, helped to boost its circulation in six months from 885 to 3,200, before it was suppressed. While editor of the paper he met Friedrich Engels, tall, good-natured son of a wealthy manufacturer, famed for drinking bouts and for philosophic and economic articles in obscure journals. Engels had also begun his literary career...
This season will do much to prove Helen Jepson's worth. When she finished in Chicago last week, she clapped on a man's fedora (because it was "comfortable"), flew on to San Francisco to sing in Martha and La Boheme. The Metropolitan intends to boost her again this winter. There will be no more Pasha's Garden. Handsome Helen Jepson will have a chance presumably in Martha, La Boheme, Faust, Pagliacci, Tales of Hoffmann...