Word: benefactors
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...jaws, both of which are apt to give exquisite pain. It is much to say of any profession that it reduces the amount or the intensity of human pain, for pain is an unmixed evil, and whoever abates it for multitudes or for one individual, is a real benefactor. As life advances, dentistry is able to repair the loss of teeth caused by wear, accident, and disease; that is, dentistry can supply artificial teeth singly, in groups, or in sets, and by doing so can check or in part prevent the dilapidation of the human countenance by age, and provide...
...services on November 29 the anniversary of the birth of John Harvard. Evidently the usage did not long continue, for such a service has not been held within the memory of the present College generation. The tercentenary celebration two years ago brought the life and services of the great benefactor before the public as well as the University in most complete fashion, but that too will soon have passed beyond any but occasional recollection...
...will produce a true Harvard song in word as well as in tune-- that will have the martial air of victory coupled with the appealing tunefulness of good melody--that man will be a benefactor of no small consequence to the University. Perhaps it will be in this competition that such a one will find his opportunity...
...ticker, which after all is a delicate and sensitive electrical instrument, should register this moral regeneration, is a sign of health and not of disease, and the physician who detects the germs of that disease which is sapping public confidence and poisoning the industrial and political body, is a benefactor of his country and prophet of his day and his generation. When Jenner introduced vaccination into the domain of curative and preventive medicine, the reactionaries pronounced him as an enemy of mankind, but the next generation held him up as one of the greatest benefactors of the human race...
...Puritan loyalty to England at the very moment of the Separatists' revolt against the worldliness of the Established Church; but he seems unduly to emphasize the political aspect of their emigration; and he tends to make Harvard's seriousness rather more solemn than one should expect in an eternal benefactor of youth, "bearing contentment in his heart." I will not speak of occasional infelicities of phrase in this commendable attempt to give expression to the feelings of gratitude and the sense of duty which are our common inheritance...