Word: godsend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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True the Merchant Marine Library has been a Godsend to the American merchant seaman whether on deck, in engine room or pantry...
Whatever the Monster was, it was a godsend to Loch Ness hotelkeepers, tourist agencies, omnibus operators. At the height of the 1934 excitement newshawks suddenly remembered the Benedictine monastery at Fort Augustus, at the southern and deepest end of the lake. There they found jovial, garrulous 83-year-old the Right Rev. Sir David Hunter Blair, Bart. Sir David is more than a British baronet. He is a onetime captain of Scottish militia, an antiquarian, author of five books of memoirs, a Benedictine monk and titular Abbot of Dunfermline. Abbot Sir David has been an Abbot Emeritus of Fort Augustus...
...financial volte-face of Blum, the Pinks voted for it, and virtually the whole Chamber voted for it by the tremendous majority of 470 to 46. That might seem excruciatingly funny to some women, but to the enormous majority of steadygoing French folk it seemed like a godsend. Two nights later they heard on the radio President Albert Lebrun, a figure much esteemed for his dignified embodiment of the point of view of a small-town Frenchman, tell them that the entire nation must lay aside partisanship and buy up the loan...
...guitars, mandolins, bandurrias. On their heels followed a band of Italians who also called themselves "The Spanish Students." So intense was their rivalry that, when the two troupes met in Denver, they battled it out with fists. To the musical instrument trade of the U. S. this was a godsend. The mandolin was something new to most people, and in the 1890's, heyday of parlor music, that wiry-sounding fretted instrument became the rage...
...York Herald Tribune: ''One of the earliest applications of the discovery is expected to make motherhood possible to women who are handicapped by some dysfunction of the physiological processes and are unable to go through a full period of pregnancy. It will also be a godsend to those women who desire children but do not wish to bear them for the full period of gestation...