Word: booning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...carry a lesser burden of courses would not be superfluous. It is not that the measure is unquestionably right, but simply that it is at present being earnestly tried at many points. Opinion awaits the results of these trials and welcomes the extensions of them as a boon...
...pleasant to meet a rare type of boon, that which unravels a particularly annoying knot without snarling the string at the other end. For years the Cottage Farm Bridge and the railroad bridge beside it have been a thorn in the flesh of rowers on the Charles. They form a barrier to be passed only with great caution. Now, by a bill pending in the legislature, each of the bridges is expected to give way to a new structure with six fifty-foot spans, and thus to clear the river for rowing from Anderson Bridge to the Basin...
Much of the success of all these efforts depends, of course, on the weather this winter. A severe cold spell will be a boon for makers of anti-freeze mixture...
...satisfy the desires of conservative business men (see Page 6, TAXATION). Not only will the income tax rates be lowered, thus freeing much money each year for investment in business instead of Government projects, but the anticipated repeal of many excise nuisance taxes should also prove a considerable boon to trade...
...President was congratulated. A delegation came to do it. Merchants and business men gathered round, told him that the law passed by the last Congress for the arbitration of business disputes was a boon to industry...