Word: boons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even selection of courses, for the first two years, at any rate, follows the same paternalistic pattern. Here, however, the administration's watchful guidance can be considered a definite boon...
...their annual meeting in 1948, nine Dixie governors agreed on a simple answer: they would share each other's campuses. They set up a council, opened headquarters in Atlanta, went into operation in 1949. By last week, the Southern Regional Education Board had become the biggest boon that Southern education has ever known - "the greatest bargain," says Florida's Fuller Warren, "since manna fell on the children of Israel...
...never knows who may to scrutinize his post. It's may be a prospective employer, in which case the records to college extracurricular affiliations kept in University Hall are a boon. Or it might be the local investigation committee. Disputes over the membership list requirement usually center on this somewhat hypothetical, but nonetheless menacing, possibility, but recently the Council has attacked it on both counts...
...writer, a conservative 27-year-old chemist, first accepted it upon returning to college from the Army in 1946. The Windsor knot is really a boon to the well-dressed gentleman, as once tied it will not shift its position, and thus retains its neat appearance...
Hailed as a great man and a boon to the nation, Lanza drank deep of fame-and promptly became intoxicated. He announced that he was preparing to graft new limbs on infantile-paralysis victims. Soon, he declared, he would show preliminary examples of similar radical grafts, including a goat with donkey's legs, a sheep with dog's legs, a chicken with a pigeon's head, a dove with rabbit's ears and a rabbit with dove's wings. No gonkey, shog, or picken turned up, but Lanza did give newsmen a brief, none...