Word: booning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...find a friendly confident guide through the mazes of Widener would be a splendid boon to the incoming Freshman, and no less to busy upper classmen who have so little time to experiment on strange volumes. In his special field of study the student soon becomes competent to select authors for himself. In the departments of his "distribution" he is also possessed of some kind of compass. But unless his education has gone far beyond that of the average undergraduate all else is an uncharted sea. To have friendly access to a humanist who would pilot him past the shoals...
Christmas is primarily a boon for independent retailers and department stores, although chain-stores and mail-order firms benefit by it somewhat. The latter organizations are less subject to seasonal influences than department stores, particularly, who must "clean up" during the Christmas and spring seasons to carry large stocks over the long summer months...
...current as minute as that generated by the heart. He accomplished this by the discovery of the wire galvanometer. This consists of a thin wire, stretched in a magnetic field. By virtue of its ability to measure these feeble electric currents of the heart it has proved a tremendous boon to the study of heart disease. So important is it for this purpose that almost every hospital in the country which takes heart patients is equipped to make electrocardiographs, as the pictures of the heart's action are called...
...peculiarly fits Mr. Gilbert for the important and responsible work which lies ahead of him, I feel that the Reparations Commission and the Governments are to be congratulated upon having secured for the post a man whose known breadth of vision, ability and wide experience will prove an invaluable boon to the great work which means so much to the world...
...forget that Fascism fought in 1919, 1920 and 1921, leaving some thousands of glorious dead, some ot them hardly more than boys, on its way and dared to carry out the Revolution in 1922 without first asking anyone's leave. My dear pedagogues, please confer the inestimable boon on us of reserving at least part of your sermons for those gentlemen who militate in the Opposition camp because the pacification which we sincerely want cannot be obtained by exercise of one-sided and therefore useless patience on our part...