Word: boons
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Died. Jesse William Shields, 78, one of the U.S. rubber industry's most inventive engineers, who directed physical research first at Goodyear and later at Firestone, in 1932 conceived a low-pressure pneumatic tractor tire that proved a major boon to farming, during World War II developed hard-rubber tracks for U.S. and British tanks, and a foam plastic float used to transport vehicles ashore in the Okinawa landing; of chronic lung disease; in Wilmington...
Probably no man of the 12th century has had more meaning for intellectuals of the 20th than Thomas Becket. Hum bly born in London's Cheapside, Becket rose high in the world to become Chancellor of England under his fast friend and boon companion, King Henry II. Becket served his king by curbing the power of the lawless barons, and Henry then had him appointed Archbishop of Canterbury in order to curb the power of the clergy. Instead, Becket switched allegiance from King to God. His relevance for moderns is in his martyrdom and its unanswered questions: Where does...
Should busy housewives be entitled to the domestic equivalent of a secretary? Why not? One reason is simply the expense. But many women might prefer to do without other luxuries in exchange for the boon of competent help. The key word is competent; too many servants, even when they are available, are unwilling and untrained, and it may take more time supervising them than doing the work oneself. Often, however, this is the fault of the employer. American women are not good at handling servants, being either too bossy or too familiar, and failing to set down reasonable but precise...
...William Tyrone Guthrie, L.H.D., artistic director of the Minnesota Theater Company at the Tyrone Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis. Technical autocracy is a threat against which his theater has offered a bright promise that the ennobling power of mature, professional theater may prove a boon for men everywhere in the trying decades ahead...
...Commodore Hotel-baseball's first "free agent" draft, which, in effect, stripped away the bargaining rights of the country's young hopefuls and put them on the block like so many sides of beef. To hear some of the clubs talk, it was the greatest boon to baseball since Happy Chandler returned to politics. "I've been pushing for this thing for 20 years," crowed the Cleveland Indians' vice president, Gabe Paul...