Word: godsend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty-four hours after the Squalus went down the Navy had every available expert and rescue device on the scene. Calm weather was a godsend. At 10:15 a.m. Diver Martin Sibitzky went over the side of the Falcon and was lowered to. the deck of the Squalus. Under the terrible pressure in icy water, work was very slow. It took him 20 minutes to slide a shackle over a ring on the submarine's deck, clip a bolt through, tighten a nut. A cable was attached to the shackle. Before Sibitzky was back aboard the Falcon, nearly...
...world over a sales talk wherewith to woo legislators and tax payers. He delved into the histories of nations from Rome to the U. S., came up with his theory that no nation ever became a world power or held its position without a Big Navy. This was a godsend to his contemporaries, who had to deal with the awful fact that so long as the U. S. was content to grow within its mainland boundaries, it did not need and would not have a Big Navy...
Blond, 39, Balkan-bearded, poker-faced, enthusiastic. Whit Burnett is a hypochondriac ex-newspaperman, formerly of Salt Lake City, Vienna and Majorca, now solidly repatriated and a leading godsend to U. S. short story writers whose stuff he publishes when all others refuse. He is also one of the few people who seem to be as fascinated by writers' doings as some are by the orbits of movie stars...
World affairs lately have made bad news to most people, but they have proved a godsend to the art of David Low. By far the best British cartoonist, Low has been drawing brilliant political cartoons for 36 of his 47 years, but never before have events so played into his dexterous hands, given him a cast of characters so suited to his talents, created so many situations to outrage his liberalist sensibilities, or presented him with so much international double-dealing, blundering and inhumanity to whet the anger that guides...
...John Lewis and his group. When a country topples slowly into economic chaos no one thinks to improve his condition by refusing to work. Work and the chance to earn an honest living appear as the greatest benefits to mankind and woe to him who willfully throws up this Godsend to baggle for more money or shorter hours...