Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...regimental routine has been jazzed up a little, Major MacBeth Moir admitted, for the benefit of the public: "Possibly some old regimental officers might turn in their graves, but I hope not. I think they would be proud...
...hung-over horror of awaking on New Year's Day with the fantastic impression that a manhole cover was resting on his head. "Imagine my surprise," concluded the great man, "when I reached up and found out there was a manhole cover resting on my head." Without benefit of liquor, this sensation is available to the reader of the works (This Side of Innocence, Tender Victory) of Janet Miriam Taylor Caldwell...
...some houses, Kirkland for example, the Council representative is a fully integrated member of the House Committee. This should be done in all the Houses, even when it forces the Committee to change its meting from Monday night. The change of meeting day would also benefit the individual Committee members since they would be able to attend Council meetings when the agenda was of interest to them. The Council has many faults and limitations, but if it is to serve any useful function, its members must be made more responsible to those they represent...
...this paternalism implies too great a concern with the undergraduate salesmen, and insufficient regard for the undergraduate purchaser. Monopolies rarely care for their customers' needs too well, and free competition here will benefit the buyer. Where demand is large, in laundry service for example, competing agencies should be encouraged as protection for the buyer...
...Albanian rulers of Egypt and overlords of the Ottoman Empire did little else to benefit mankind, they were identified with some of the most beautiful women in the world. Princess Fawzia, sister of Egypt's fat Farouk and onetime Empress of Iran, was one. Dark-eyed Princess Zehra Hanzade, granddaughter of Turkey's last Sultan and mother of Fazilet, was another. Fazilet's father, Prince Mohammed Ali, is a cousin of Farouk's. He fled Egypt when Farouk did, and got most of his vast wealth out to Europe. At first, Papa was not keen...