Word: booning
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...only one change in the tentative starting lineup: Charley Roche, 175-pound Freshman back from Winchester, replaces Bill Jackson in the tailback position. Right end Don Swegan will not be ready for tomorrow's game. HARVARD COAST GUARD DeLuzio, le le, Reed Fisher, lt lt, Brandfass Allen, lg lg, Boon Faber, c c, Burke LeBart, rg rg, Prunski Foster, rt rt, Starr Champion, re re, Caldwell Tennant, qb qb, Gaither Roche, lhb lhb, Duin Flynn, rhb rhb, Lattin Cowen, fb fb, Dorsey...
Last week science promised motorists another postwar boon: synthetic inner tubes that will hold air ten times as long as natural rubber, will need to be inflated only three or four times a year, and will run on nicely for miles after a puncture...
...rate of 40 a month, delivered like K rations by plane, ship, train or parachute wherever there are G.I.s to read them. Servicemen in enemy prison camps get them (through the International Y.M.C.A.) at the rate of some 100,000 a month, and in hospitals their lightness is a boon to the wounded...
...dancing, cards and conversation. He youthfully spent too much money in his first year at William and Mary (playing cards and sowing his wild oats) and youthfully resolved to do better the next year. But-unyouthfully-he kept his resolve, studied 15 hours a day, and had for his boon companions a great lawyer (George Wythe), a philosopher and mathematician (Dr. William Small), and the witty, gambling Governor Francis Fauquier...
...Harry Hopkins is "special assistant and adviser to the President of the United States." Actually, his job is much more complex. It is a unique position in the U.S. Government. Specifically it calls for the qualities of a secretary, expediter, administrator, errand boy, good listener, executive, idea man, boon companion, and alter ego. There is no law covering it, the occupant need not be confirmed by Congress, he is responsible to no one except the President, and he can make the job what he will. When Hopkins quits (unlikely) or dies, the job will vanish...