Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Students wishing to join must pay the club a sum which about covers the cost of checking his and his parents' credit rating with Dun and Bradstreet. This precaution is for the benefit of participating merchants, since the club directors themselves feel that "any kid going to Harvard is all right," treasurer David T. Schwartz '59 said...
...level of the University, greater administrative cooperation between departments would be of untold benefit to the undergraduate. If red tape were loosened far enough to encourage the occasional loan of the history and literary professors for History and Lit. tutorials, the College and the concentrator in History and Lit. would benefit...
...Andy used to meet students was to sell them tickets for the Postman's Ball, held yearly for the Mutual Benefit Association. "I walked into a room one year," he recalls, "and the fellows wouldn't buy. When I walked in the next year they were playing poker, so I put down three tickets, and took the money out of the pot." Fearful of his persuasive tactics, many students would be expecting him and "they'd run in the closet and under the beds." The CRIMSON at one time complained against the coercive tactics of a Dunster House mailman...
Although Communist countries may be able to gain a certain propaganda advantage by admitting Western travelers, the United States can gain no less an advantage by demonstrating its willingness to let its citizens see formerly forbidden sights. There is even the possibility that the State Department might benefit from the activities of unofficial observers. Not even Secreary Dulles has been to Red China...
...disabled vet, since he had not been in service. Instead, with the customary request for $1, he made a frank pitch to the effect that the next-to-worthless crucifixes or rosary bracelets were "being sent to you by an enterprise that is owned and operated for the benefit of Murray Kram." Murray did not bother with Irish-sounding names ("I don't think more than 40% or 50% of the people with Irish names are Catholics"), filled his sucker lists with Italian and Slavic names. In 1955 Murray Kram's Religious Distributing Co. grossed...