Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...council. Throughout the trying week. Rainier kept stonily silent in his pink palace. After all, Monaco was still Monaco, and royalty had other duties to perform. For one thing, there was the gala $23-a-plate dinner and world film premiere of Kings Go Forth for the benefit of the Monegasque Red Cross. Everyone from Gina Lollobrigida to Frank Sinatra. Noel Coward and Bette Davis was there. At the last moment, however, two of the star attractions, those old-shoe American tourists. Mr. and Mrs. Harry S. Truman of Independence, Mo., sent word that they could not make...
...benefit of other benefactors, Yale made out a list of gifts - enormous, huge or merely sizable - that it would like to receive within five years: $14 million for graduate fellowships, undergraduate scholarships and student loans; $10 million for faculty pay raises; $6,447,000 for a new geology building, geology teaching and research ; $6,000,000 for twelve new professorships; $3,931,000 to build a new school of art and architecture, remodel the existing school; $1,000,000 for the Yale University Press...
...Walden the program has had the benefit of some exceptional, versatile teachers, and that is obviously a large part of the battle in any educational program. But Augustus Pigman, one of the teachers who has helped to develop it, argues that only good, interested teachers are necessary to make the program succeed, and he hopes that other institutions will copy the Walden program...
...return, however, is not enough. There must be a full-scale reevaluation of the Levelling Philosophy. For the benefit of all students, we can institute course requirements in language, mathematics, and science--and provide for advanced work in literature and history. If the grammar school has not taught its charges the fundamentals of reading writing, and spelling, the secondary school should not compound the folly and bequeathe colleges a simple-sentence, monosyllabic thinker...
...rising market of the last ten years, nearly all the funds show impressive gains. But few outperform the market. The big funds have not increased in value as fast as blue chips. "Sure," says Joseph E. Welch, executive vice president of the $651 million Wellington Fund. "With the benefit of hindsight, an investor might have done better to put his money into some of the blue chips. But the catch is, which one should he have picked? Any sensible mutual-fund management will not claim they can perform miracles...