Word: boon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Brown's hope is that this system, which raises the referees right off the floor up to platforms above each basket (as shown in the accompanying picture) will not only prove a boon to the actual playing of the game, but will also serve to stimulate spectator interest, something which the coach considers of primary importance at a time when war cloud threaten to eclipse all progress in competitive athletics. "It's well worth a fair trial," brown stated, "and while basketball is still on its feet we should do everything possible to encourage progress in the game...
...bygones were bygones, Franklin Roosevelt desperately wanted Democrat Bennett to win over Republican Thomas E. Dewey. Three weeks ago, he formally plumped for Bennett's election. But Republican Dewey still led in the straw polls, Democrat Bennett was a poor second; and the American Labor Party, formerly a boon to the New Deal, was running a candidate of its own. So, last week Franklin Roosevelt tried again. Said he, in a telegram addressed to Bennett but meant for the ears of the American Labor Party: "To suggest that my support of you is formal and lukewarm is an untruth...
Meshing two air forces into one offensive force is a tough and tremendous job. For the most part the job is being done well and rapidly, by men who have become close friends. Two of London's boon companions are Major General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, the U.S. air commander in Britain, and Air Marshal Sir Arthur Travers Harris, chief of the R.A.F. Bomber Command. Their bonds: flying and poker. They and other officers play often, but they seldom finish a game. Spaatz and Harris usually forget the cards, fall to telling each other how they can beat Hitler from...
...also did a lot of playing, and the Court of George V did not always ap prove of his playmates. One of his boon companions was Edward, Prince of Wales. Another was the late Douglas Fairbanks. Not until Edward briefly took the throne did Lord and Lady Louis Mountbatten have an unclouded welcome at court. Then, in 1937, he became King Edward's naval aide-de-camp...
...seen German officials, pledged allegiance to Petain, promised not to aid De Gaulle. Last week the aging escapist was reported to have offered to surrender, in return for release of 500,000 Frenchmen imprisoned in Germany. Since Frenchmen are a burden to Germany as prisoners and could be a boon as laborers for Laval, this looked as if it might be a very pretty answer to a very curious affair...