Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...traditional Sabbath nor the laws of the Puritans have been able to preserve their sanctity in the twentieth century. If inertia prevents the repeal of unwanted laws there are many precedents as well as every reason for suspending their operation where rigorous enforcement causes inconvenience to many and benefit to none...
...should, furthermore, be remembered that the swing from course to tutorial work is not likely to benefit any one but honors candidates. The student who has not sufficient scholastic ambition to try for honors will but rarely find a larger opportunity for unprescribed work of advantage...
...Congressman Douglass has so much passion on tap why not use some of it for the benefit of East Boston. Why not blast the Elevated for the way it laid tracks in the Bennington boulevard, destroying the beauty of a highway that cost $750.000? Why not roar at Mayor Nichols for cancelling the taxes of the East Boston Land Co, to the amount of one hundred fifty-two thousand dollars? Why not condemn the outrageous bathing facilities for the little children at Wood Island, where the bathhouses is on the edge of a dirty pool, a breeder of typhoid...
After four months of mulling, the Ways & Means Committee last week delivered to the House a ponderous Bill to revise the tariff for the benefit of the farmer?and others. Farmers, through their Congressional representatives, surveyed the measure suspiciously, expressed strong disappointment, began to kick dirt. Great was their surprise when other interests affected by this 85,000-word measure were, for different reasons, no more pleased than they...
...textile industries received added protection?approximately a 10% increase over present rates. In New England, gratification at this benefit was tempered by disappointment at the bill's failure to shift leather shoes from the free to the dutiable list. The House committee was pressed by the farmers for a duty on hides, which was rejected and with it New England's plea for a shoe duty. Committeemen felt they could not "defend" such an increase on the House floor...