Word: boons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expected on the part of the commuters themselves may never appear. The plan on the whole is a judicious move: if it receives unqualified support from the students and tutors, and if it is fortunate in the selection of men it receives from the faculty, it should prove a boon and a basis for further advance; otherwise, it will quietly vanish away...
...will be a good thing for G. B. S., he wryly points out, to get an accurate picture of historical characterizations for once. Unruffled, Shaw agrees to join the venture if he can write in a scene, well prefaced, showing the evils of vivisection and the boon of vegetarianism. Critics will be a pair of idiots who believe themselves to be God and St. Peter...
This year Moscow Province and the Tartar Republic are the only parts of the Soviet Union to fulfill 100% the grain shipping quotas set by the Soviet State. Last week virtuous Moscovites and Tartars were rewarded by Dictator Josef Stalin. He decreed as a signal boon that all collective and even individual peasant farms in Moscow Province and the Tartar Republic are authorized to sell any surplus grain which they may have left for what it will bring...
WELLS (H.G.) Boon...
...trade. Last week rather than stand a long and costly trial with the risk of losing the case and being heavily fined, the defendants agreed to mend their set-up as the Government suggested, stoutly insisting nevertheless that they had violated no law. Their consent will be a boon to the entire radio industry, hitherto befuddled by patent confusion. And Owen D. Young becomes more available for the Roosevelt Cabinet, since now he will not have to appear as a defense witness in one of the biggest anti-trust suits of all time...