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Word: godsends (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...events of the 1870's contributed mightily to the therapeutic treatment begun by Renouvier: James started teaching at Harvard and he married Alice Howe Gibbens. He viewed the offer of employment from Harvard as a "godsend," welcoming the stabilizing influence of a regular vocation...

Author: By William D. Phelan jr., | Title: Cosmopolite Cosmologist: The Life of William James | 5/8/1963 | See Source »

...region that had subsisted on corn and cotton, Lone Star was a godsend. "I grew up in this town," said one Daingerfield resident. "I can remember when maybe one or two mule-drawn wagons would come to town a day. We were dead before E. B. Germany and Lone Star." Along with booming payrolls. Lone Star sponsored baton-twirling classes for girls, baseball clinics for boys, professional workshops for teachers and ministers. Employees were married and buried from a chapel at the plant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: Off to the Creek Bank | 6/29/1962 | See Source »

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