Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Similarly I had been told that Cardinal Mercier was dying and could not last another week. I dined with him at his palace in Malines shortly before I sailed and found him active and full of constructive ideas for the benefit of his people...
...building is more to be noted as a guiding star for modern Greece. That country sank to the depths of degeneration under Turkish rule. Curiously, it is Turkish action in purposely strangling the purposely of Constantinople for the benefit of Angora that is turning Mediterranean commerce to Grecian cities, particularly to Athens and its point of Piraeus. Greece has the material necessities for an era of prosperity, but she is still in the clutches of technical methods which are anachronisms from the days before the Industrial Revolution. In the construction of this new library America has furnished the surrounding country...
Coal. "With deposits of coal in this country capable of supplying its needs for hundreds of years, inability to manage and control this great resource for the benefit of all concerned is very close to a national economic failure. ... At the present time the national government has little or no authority to deal with this vital necessity of the life of the country. It has permitted itself to remain so powerless that its only attitude must be humble supplication. Authority should be lodged with the President and the Departments of Commerce and Labor, giving them power to deal with...
...phrase 'So's your old man' came to me while in a rather an amusing situation. It was at a benefit banquet and a group of actors, including myself, were waiting on the tables. A little Italian buss boy volunteered to explain to me my duties. The last sentence of his very broken and totally unintelligible discourse sounded like some remarks about my 'old man,' so I replied 'So is your old man' and the expression started. As you can see the emphasis was, in its first use, on the third word...
...More may be gained from a CRIMSON editorial competition than from any one course in College," said R. F. Bradford '23, third-year law student and former Editorial Chairman of the CRIMSON, in a statement yesterday. For the benefit of those members of the junior class who are interested in doing editorial writing, Bradford gave the CRIMSON some impressions of his own competition...