Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...roamed the mining settlements of the hill country like a hunter; he raided bootleggers (often without benefit of a search warrant), impounded slot machines and took a brutal delight in pistol-whipping lawbreakers and cursing their wives and womenfolk. One day his automobile blew up as he stepped on the starter-somebody had inserted dynamite caps in the engine. Somehow Ambrose Metcalfe walked away unhurt.* Once a moonshiner blasted at him with a shotgun; he was only grazed...
...Hoelzle Housing Committee was appointed with a judge as its chairman. Staff members of a local radio station and a local newspaper became self-appointed "expediters." Benefit dances and basketball games were held. The committee's zeal was unbounded; they got a lot in a fine residential section and built a $22,000 house with an elevator shaft, ramps for Bob Hoelzle's wheelchair, and special bathroom fixtures...
...block since the war. "At 1,000 marks a head," he says, "I can scarcely make both ends meet." Hard-pressed, Gustav decided that what he needed was a sideline to supplement his income. He apparently found one. Last week, obligingly wearing his formal professional attire for the benefit of photographers (see cut) Gustav appeared at a police station in Berlin's U.S. sector charged with robbing an aged invalid...
Amherst which ruined the Crimson golf team's otherwise spotless record last year, did it again yesterday as it nipped the Harvard squad, 4 to 3, with the benefit of a couple of 1-up victories...
...Music Clubs, are tied up intimately with the department and receive the wholehearted support of faculty members. Activity in these organizations can compensate in part for the total lack of "practical music" courses, but except in the case of the Glee Club, only the real virtuoso can gain much benefit from these activities...