Word: boone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...courts, this was the first one to be formally renounced. The President made it clear that he had not been responsible for the mistake in the first place. Retail merchants had wanted the date of Thanksgiving set a week ahead to lengthen the shopping season before Christmas; the expected boon to trade had not materialized; the changed date had been an experiment and the experiment had not worked. But at this point, said Mr. Sullivan, "there was encountered an often-ignored condition, the tendency of mistakes to take root and become permanent. Manufacturers of calendars print their wares a year...
...Premier but also Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Interior, the Navy, and Propaganda and Information-and by Constitutional Act he stands in succession to the Marshal himself. Under these titles and perquisites he is a neat French edition of the able, scheming, ruthless personality-type which has been a boon to Fascism wherever it has risen...
...N.Y.A. may well be a boon to the University, especially in the future. With private endowments on the decrease, the $80,000 a year which would come from N.Y.A. for use in the University, would be very necessary. Last year the University ended with a slight deficit...
...great boon to the British at this point was well-meaning but jinx-bearing Major Kermit Roosevelt, who bobbed up in Cairo. The 26th U. S. President's second son joined the British Army in October 1939. The following February he resigned to lead "a modern crusade" to Finland, but the Finnish War ended too soon. Back with the British Army again last spring, promoted from second lieutenant to major, he went to Narvik, was there long enough to be driven out. He planned to go to France, but France collapsed before he got there. Arriving in Egypt...
...that does not glamorize war and womanhood. Says he: "Cubism, dadaism, futurism, impressionism and the rest have nothing in common with our German people. For all these notions are neither old nor are they modern; they are simply the artificial stammering of people whom God has denied the boon of genuine artistic talent and given instead the gift of prating and deception...