Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact the Union Press box is unique in its position in regard to the elements. Walled in on three sides and with a wide projecting roof, this enclosure never gets the benefit of the fresh October winds which find their way so easily into the analagous seats atop most Stadia. This inordinate confinement combines with the position directly over the smoking cigarettes of a capacity crowd to make the air hardly fit for use. Aside from the matter of hygiene, the decrease in visibility resultant from this pall makes discernment of the grid-graph a matter of blind chance reason...
...coaches feel that the place where cheering does the most good is the Bowl during the game, and that the players would benefit greatly from a long nights sleep before leaving for New Haven...
...Just as a surgeon does not commit himsa (killing), but practices the purest ahimsa (non-killing) when he wields his knife on his patient's body for the latter's benefit, similarly one may find it necessary ... to go a step further and sever life from the body in the interest of the sufferer...
...Chilean Congress were circularized, last week, by the American Smelting and Refining Co. The circulars declared that only the most deplorable results can be expected if the Chilean Government takes action under the law empowering them to impose a tax similar in effect to a "protective tariff" for the benefit of Chilean smelting interests...
...Bonfils: "That [burial] has now been done for the benefit of the subscriber and of the advertiser, tending to create in our beloved section a better newspaper feeling and co-operation . . . making this a better and a more wholesome country in which to live, rear our families and transact our business. . . . These two papers are going to try to deserve the respect and friendship of each other...