Word: bolstered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...match the Elis' offensive standard. Fullbacks Phil Meyer and Mal Black are big but slow, and alternating goalies Charlie Grigg and Andy Block have shown a tendency to wilt under pressure. The Elis use a three-back defense, with the center half functioning as a third fullback, to bolster their protection...
...injury-riddled Funsters can overcome a seventh-place Dudley team next Tuesday, their tackle football team will be undefeated for the third consecutive year. Halfback Stan Greenspan and quarterback Dewey Manzer will lead the Dunster attack, while lineman Mike McDonald will bolster the defense...
Captain and center, Frank Szvetecz will return to fulltime active duty after a three week absence. His return will give Princeton the services of perhaps the best center in the league, and will bolster a line which to date has held its opponents to 20 yards less per game than the Crimson...
...alternative is governmental or natural devaluation of the Canadian dollar. Such a step would tend to bolster the trade balance by making exports more attractive and imports more expensive, but would cut the standard of living. Second choice is some form of economic integration with the U.S. That would probably involve the reciprocal reduction or elimination of duties (a reciprocity treaty was approved by Congress in 1911, but the government of Premier Sir Wilfrid Laurier went to the Canadian electorate asking support and was defeated). But that would erode Canada's economic sovereignty, which many Canadians consider already sufficiently...
...existence, man's role in the universe. The College, however, does not attempt to answer these Questions; teachers, in Raphael Demos's phrase, may lead students into the wood and leave them to find their own way out. Classroom discussion and reading, plus contact with other faiths, definitely bolster religious questioning. For many Protestants, the result may be temporary agnosticism, but for others it may bring renewed understanding built on a previously existing basis of faith...