Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This attitude was swiftly indorsed by Professor Alfred D. F. Hamlin of Columbia University, chairman of a Division of Fine Arts which is raising $150,000 (from sculptors, $10,000) for a Fine Arts Bay in the Cathedral. He said: "The Cathedral is not being built for the benefit of American sculptors or architects but for the cause of religion. . . . Dr. Cram is entirely correct in feeling that he must get the best sculptors he can find...
...second Sunday in April "will be" the date it believes will be adopted; said further: "A late Easter often proves disastrous to sellers of many lines of merchandise because it shortens the spring season, thereby reducing the volume of business, while the lengthened winter season is of little benefit. With the adoption of a fixed date, all such difficulties will disappear. Clergymen were vexed...
...McGill University, Montreal. Far gone with the disease, she had journeyed to Liverpool to enlist the colloidal lead solution treatment of Professor William Blair Bell. But he could do her no good. She was one of the 250 he ministered to, one of the 200 he could not benefit, one of the few who died. For years Professor Leacock had watched his wife dying; had watched come over her the pallor and emaciation of brave suffering. But a public had come to like and demand his witticisms, stimulated by his uproarious Literary Lapses of 1910. Fifteen other laugh-provoking books...
...light. To aid verisimilitude the spray contains a secret phial which the Pope himself filled with balsam and essence of musk before handing it to Monsignor Ferdinand de Croji, whom he charged to deliver it to Queen Elizabeth as a testimonial of his esteem. The Rose, for the benefit of the calculating, weighs 1.100 kilograms (2b.). The base bears the inscription in Latin: "To Elizabeth, Queen of Belgium, given by Pius XI P. M. on the XXV anniversary of her august wedding...
...meeting will be a good thing for the creation of interest and enthusiasm in the coming season," said Coach Mitchell yesterday in com- meeting on the formal opening of the season, "and the inspiration which will be furnished by the presence of former players should prove a decided benefit. The reason I am going to call the Freshmen out first is so that I will be able to devote my whole time to them for the first week or two and find out to a certain extent the kind of material which I will have to work with during...