Word: booning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...high prices of today are, however, a boon to the cotton planting experiments made elsewhere by other nations. The French, for example, are reported to be trying out possibilities of cotton production in their Mediterranean colonies. Great Britain has been studying ways and means of increasing the cotton output of her colonies, particularly in South Africa, Egypt, Australia. Brazil, which years ago gave up cotton for other crops, is now planning to benefit from current soaring prices by again sowing her fields in cotton. It is apparent, therefore, that unless Government experts under the Department of Agriculture can shortly solve...
...published his very successful novel anonymously. Homer Croy, having been a writer of humorous stories in the past, was afraid that the public wouldn't take him seriously when he wrote of the problems of adolescence and smalltown life in the Southwest. I had met him when his Boon Stop had just been published. He has changed little since then, except in the matter of his literary style...
...that a recent error of punctuation on its pages should be partially corrected. It declares "the final score stood 3 to 2 for the Lampoon"; but it left out a dash. The sentence would be "The final score stood 3 to 2 for the Lampoon". FELE. G. BOON...
...forbade the teaching of other languages to English-speaking children, its provinciality and bigotry are manifest. This recoiling from all languages except English, while perhaps excusable in war times, was ill-advised then, and now is absurd. The knowledge of two modern languages could be nothing but a boon, and the advantages of having them taught in the elementary schools is obvious...
...wind that blows nobody any good. The unusually severe winter has proved a genuine boon to makers of rubber footwear, as is shown by the encouraging statement of the U.S. Rubber Company, which reports earnings of $2.65 on its common stock...