Word: boons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There is enough ability concentrated in the few millions of Jews to raise the general average considerably if it were decimated by intermixture. I do not know that they would be willing to do it, but, if they did, they would confer a great genetic boon upon mankind and at the same time would solve their own problem...
...college material in rural areas. It is unfortunate that because of their paucity applicants from Arkansas have a better chance of admission than those from Pennsylvania. To make its scope more national, Harvard depends on higher standards among Southeastern and Southwestern states. Equality of education throughout America is a boon to the colleges as well as the local communities, and equality depends upon the passage of the Harrison Bill...
...Chief boon to the workers in the field in the Pickering collection of plates compiled by the Observatory some 40 years ago. These plates, unused because of lack of equipment, now have become the most valuable method of approach to the previously insoluble problem...
...enthusiastic extras were to have received $1.00 a performance for the privilege of serving their muse. However, because of long rehearsals and a special boon by Orson ("Falstaff") Welles, their pay has been raised to $2.00 for each performance and rehearsal...
Patriotic War veterans made no secret of their hatred of this royal boon, patiently waited for an incident to demonstrate their feelings. Fortnight ago, they found one. One of the Flemish politicians pardoned by the King's bill was Dr. Adrian Martens, a mediocre medical man who had worked for Flemish autonomy. Sentenced to death, Martens escaped to The Netherlands in 1918. The Belgians burned him in effigy. After the passage of the amnesty bill, he returned unobtrusively to take up practice in Ghent. Some time ago, Belgian Premier Paul Henri Spaak proposed Dr. Martens for membership...