Word: godsend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only an opportunity for Yerkes Observatory to earn a few score unexpected dollars, the eclipse is a godsend to New England. The New England Council, regional business builder, began to advertise the eclipse in magazines and newspapers last February. The Council got out a special eclipse folder. The New England Hotel Association distributed 100,000 copies of a special brochure on the phenomenon. North Conway and Provincetown, Mass.. Wolfeboro, Littleton and Whitefield. N. H. and Fryeburg, Me.?all communities in the path of the totality shadow?have had men & mail calling attention to their excellent locations...
...butler named Cross, of Colney, Norwich, England, 73 years old and retired on a pension, who remarked: "Whatever I get will be a godsend...
...Street, the erection of Law dormitories would be no especial benefit, but to the more impecunious students, who come to Cambridge from distant parts and are forced to live in unattractive rooms and dine in gloomy boarding houses or the ordinary hash slinging cafeteria, such houses would be a godsend. Building sites and money are the difficulties to be overcome. One can only pray for the appearance of some benefactor like Harkness, Baker, and Vanderbilt to provide buildings for the Law School worthy of its importance in the University...
Philadelphia. Last week a white Federal elephant became a municipal godsend when the U. S. Shipping Board agreed to sell Hog Island, $53,000,000 Wartime shipyard site, for $3,000.000 to the city of Philadelphia, for development as an air-water-rail terminal. Of Hog Island's 946 acres, 307 will be used for an airport, 70 for a seaplane base, 569 for marine and rail facilities...