Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...doubt the widespread feeling that successes in a class-room are useless after leaving college is due to the achievements of those men of real ability who were not able to derive any benefit from such an education and failed to distinguish themselves as students. The figures obtained by these two independent sources, however, show clearly that such men are rare exceptions, and that for the most part those who score by their academic pursuits at college will continue their success after graduation...
...benefit by the technical knowledge and public esteem won for the Profession by the Engineers who labored in the past, we shall ever strive to augment that heritage before passing it on to the Engineers who are to follow...
...vacancy in the U. S. Court of Claims for no better reason, it seemed, than that Mr. Green had chronically disagreed with Secretary Mellon's ideas on taxation, particularly the inheritance tax, which the Administration wants repealed. Mr. Green fought the repeal because he thought it would benefit only a small class of rich people; because he thought taxes on estates are too easily evaded when left to the States to levy*and because it irks him to see fortunes made in the West and taken East to be spent, enjoyed, inherited. Lately, however, Iowa has favored repealing...
...proposed rate-cut conferred upon coal a special benefit out of scale with the rates given other commodities, notably agricultural. 2) It would tend to precipitate rate-cutting by railroads (Baltimore & Ohio, New York Central, Pennsylvania, Wheeling & Lake Erie) which carry coal to the same market from competing mines in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio. Rate wars are against the public interest, especially Labor's, and are one of the evils the I. C. C. was founded to suppress...
...that game the Crimson riders were using strange ponies in a small ring with poor footing. The larger and better surfaced ring of the Commonwealth Armory should draw better polo from both teams, although Harvard, having the advantage of considerable practice in the Armory, should benefit the most...