Word: booning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first time in complete visual form, from beginning to end. William Meyerowitz, famed American painter-etcher, in a narrative setting, goes through the process of etching, from posing the model, a ballet dancer, to drawing off the first proof from the press. The Magic Needle may prove a boon to those persons who frequent print rooms and constantly become involved in violent altercation trying to distinguish between engraving, etching and dry point...
...young men that he influences--and by whom he is equally influenced. And is it wholly amiss to mention his long vacations? If he is any good he uses them partly for work, to be sure, but he can work or loaf where and when he pleases and--a boon often denied the business man in summer--he can be with his family and actually get well acquainted with his wife and children...
...academic institutions, the Government's move is approved by the Oxford-Tory tradition. The foundation of Toryism was "the land." When "trade" relegated "land" to an inferior position, Toryism lost hold. If Oxford can help to bring back the relative value of land, it will be a boon to Toryism as well as to individual farmers...
Publicity may be either a boon or a burden. To those who get too much, it is certainly a burden. For such mortals a book should be written telling the proper etiquette when confronted by reporters or news photographers. They should be told, if possible, how to avoid the obloquy which the tinted press heaps upon their slightest slips in press etiquette...
...outdoor exercises that Harvard's facilities are particularly well adapted. A swimming pool would be a great boon here, and added space for basketball. While your gymnasium was really the first modern building of its kind, it has not kept pace with the rapid growth of the University, and is by no means adequate for the present demand...