Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from alarmed at the status of the college today. . . . The student body has shown itself capable of active interest in campus problems such as chapel, and the trustees have responded. Faculty members have been willing to give the public the benefit of their insight into contemporary problems. Students have participated actively in the affairs of North Adams in the attempt to better conditions there, and the first peace demonstration at Williams has proved a success. Most important, President Baxter has given a convincing demonstration of his educational liberalism throughout the year, culminating in the appointment of Dr. Lerner...
...value of publicity, got together with Mr. Cummings and put out a statement making their position clear. There was no earthly reason, they said, even though they were conducting a criminal anti-trust suit, why they should not also consider any "practical solution" which was "of major and immediate benefit to the industry, to competitors and to the public...
...right now, he did use them in his First Inaugural address in 1861. Proletarian Composer Earl Robinson has set them to music. And this week they will be used again at the opening of the Tenth National Convention of the Communist Party of the U. S. A. For the benefit of a Columbia Broadcasting System audience and as many thousands as can jam into Manhattan's Madison Square Garden a chorus of 500 is to singsong them as an addition to the repertoire of revolution...
...come chiefly to see. No. 1 amateur bantamweight of the world, his reputation of being invincible was backed up by over 100 victories in European matches in the last three years. Under Italy's Federazione Pugilistica, Sergo, like most Fascist fighters, had received top-notch instruction, had the benefit of year-round competition, including performances all over Europe, where amateur boxing is even more popular than it is in the U. S. Chicago fans, remembering well the drubbing he gave their favorite, Frank Kainrath, in the international bouts last year, were hoping against hope that they would...
Says Sullivan: "From all the passions which give direction to most men's lives, sexual love, paternity, friendship, citizenship, religious aspirations, the desire for fame, the desire to benefit humanity, Newton seems to have been free. From the point of view of most men his life, in spite of its prodigious achievements, would seem pointless. . . . His life was one long meditation, but his interest in the subject of his meditations was exhausted in the act of understanding...