Word: boons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dodgers stumbled through their first home stand last week, Smith's amiable hyperbole was borne out by the remorseless arithmetic of the score card. The looming left-field screen that was supposed to turn Memorial Coliseum into a big-league ballpark (TIME, April 28) had become the biggest boon to batters since the rabbit ball. At the end of eight home games, 26 homers had got lost on the far side of the screen only 250 ft. away...
...expects the chemise to take over completely. But it may well prove a boon to the girl with the less-than-perfect figure who wants to conceal, rather than reveal, on the beach-and a bore to the men who have to look...
Municipal Matters. The march of the highways is not always a boon to the small town. Hazel Crest, Ill. (pop. 4,000) has been pierced by the new Tri-State Tollway and would prefer not to have been. Reason: the town already has one of Illinois' highest tax rates and lowest school budgets. The tollway removes from the rolls property that brought an estimated $500,000 a year in taxes. Because of the tax loss, Hazel Crest schools have had to postpone plans for kindergartens and broader art, music and physical education courses. The tollway has also generated...
Thinking ahead along these lines, the head of the Opera Guild suggested that the College Administration restrict participation in a House play to only members of that House. This would be a boon to the College-wide groups, but would ruin House drama, which has been a most enjoyable part of Harvard Theatre. The scheduling power of the new committee, moreover, should not be used to make it difficult for a House group to find a place to rehearse...
...sale only highlights the climax of a trend of many years. The market value of such paintings seemed to have reached a peak five or ten years ago, yet it has doubled or quadrupled during the last few years. Such a state of affairs would seem to be a boon for art dealers; their problems, however, have increased, for the work of most modern French masters is today comfortably settled on the walls of American museums and private collections. Almost nothing, let alone important work, is available...