Word: benefit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With this proportion in mind, observers scanned afresh the statement of M. Stalin. Did he really fear an invasion by the Grand Duke Nikolai? A likely hypothesis seemed to be that Dictator Stalin was talking chiefly for home consumption. He and the Communist party cannot fail to benefit by the growing up among the Russian masses of an idea that the Communist regime alone stands as their defender against an "Alliance" headed by Great Britain...
...Lihme pantry yielded cakes. The Lihme icebox yielded a clove-fretted sugar ham-and bottles marked "Frontenac Export Ale." Mr. Healy and friends disposed themselves on antique gilt chairs in the Lihme dining-room and gnawed the ham without benefit of cutlery. When ale had washed down ham, one of them flung the ham bone through the glass panel of the pantry door. The bone lodged amid the china on a pantry shelf and Mr. Healy, feeling exceedingly "good," started jumping up and down in the dining-room, swinging his arms, shouting drunkenly...
...Germany has made all the required payments . . . promptly when due, exactly in conformity with the agreed arrangements . . and deliveries and payments for the benefit of the creditor powers have gone forward regularly and without interfering with the stability of German exchange...
Today and throughout the week unsold copies of the CRIMSON published last all in memory of President Emeritus Charles William Eliot will continue to appear on the Harvard Square newsstands and at the Crimson Building for the benefit of returning alumni and the Commencement visitors. The Charles William Eliot Memorial Issue may be purchased for 25 cents...
...present surplus "is of doubtful value" as a guide to the future, the President gave warning that tax reduction should not be based on the returns of one year alone, also exhorted his hearers to continue the practice of economy. "Extravagance," said he, "may bring momentary pleasure and apparent benefit, but it creates a condition which is bound to affect the future adversely. ... I do not hesitate to say that one of the greatest safeguards of this nation, financially, socially and morally, lies in constructive economy in government...