Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...delayed payment because of the relative certainty that the University will receive its due. Every student must file a bond before entering, guaranteeing his accountability; he could not skip payment if he wanted to. In such circumstances, the University could afford to give its negligent members the benefit of the doubt and cease regarding them as potential chiselers. If it feels that extra fines are necessary to ensure prompt payment, a second notice would serve both as a warning, and as a partial cover for the errors even Lehman Hall must make...
Alan Ladd handles both girls and perils with his customary cold, efficient grace; Gail Russell is very easy to look at; and William Bendix, as usual, is a benefit to the show-though he is given nothing much to set his teeth in. Well-mounted, well-played, well-tailored in every way, the picture even suggests that it might be taking place in some such city as Calcutta. Yet it will be impossible for a melodramaddict to feel that he hasn't already been there a hundred times...
...cooed nice things about Harvard men and not so nice ones about Yale, into Shepard Hall microphones. So successful was the program that the next week found a Radcliffe freshman, a Wellesley sophomore, a vacationing Vassar junior, and a Boston debutante comparing notes on Harvard men for the benefit of listeners...
...benefit performance being held to raise funds to support American aid in France, the Harvard-Radcliffe French Club will put on a production of the French comedy "Tovaritch" at 8 o'clock, Friday in Agassiz Hall, Radcliffe...
While regular umpires will arbitrate baseball games, softballers must provide their own martyrs to the cause from non-playing members, and in addition must carry on without the benefit of stolen bases, bunts, or leads off base before the pitch reaches the batter. Seven innings will suffice in both hard and softball, while the usual four and a half or five frames will constitute an official game...