Word: booster
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Deans know what they're doing. Princeton's classes emerge the most spirited alumni in the world, returning loudly each spring with firemen's uniforms and an occasional elephant--and new shekels for University coffers. Judge Harold R. Medina, a zealous reunion-booster, once appeared at an alumni festival in orange and black tights...
...Wrong with the North." In heavy-handed satire of "In the Land of Jim Crow" (TIME, Aug. 16, 1948), a series done by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Reporter Ray Sprigle after a tour of the South in the disguise of a Negro, Carter drawled that as a circulation-booster he had assigned one Sherlock ("Ol´ Fearless") Meriweather to do a series "In the Land of Grim Snow...
Stake in the Future. Kilometer 47's most ardent booster, Cornell-trained Dr. Alvaro Fagundes, director of Brazil's agricultural research, is well aware that the school's policy of refusing to compromise its high standards has some drawbacks. The cost of operation is high, entrance examinations extremely stiff, the student body relatively small. But Fagundes also knows that, in any case, Kilometer 47 can not do the job alone. A basic problem for the government is to reverse the drift of the population toward the industrial coast. And even when the hinterlands are manned and producing...
...announcement of Train's barring was affirmed by the office of W. Hammerhead Jackass. The balding booster added, "The reserve clause. It'll be a great season...
...uranium. They are the world's richest. Now is the time to get in on the ground floor. There's plenty of good uranium land available here. Since uranium is selling for $278 the kilo in Belgium, it's a fine commercial proposition . . ." In similar booster style, Land Dealer Jean Michelet took aside a visiting TIME correspondent, confided: "Come, now, I am too experienced to believe that you are a journalist. You represent American financial interests anxious to buy in on this. Let's get down to business...