Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...give some measure of hope to the 70,000 girls that are born each year in Greece, King Paul and his pert, social-minded Queen Frederika have worked out a new kind of welfare-state benefit: dowries for all. Urged on by the King and Queen, 132 citizens' committees all over Greece have conducted drives to raise money for a national dowry fund. Each time 1,000 drachmas ($33.33) is added to the collection, a bank book is issued in the name of some future bride, selected at the age of one to three years by the committee from...
Citation: "As philosopher-in 1929 in The Modern Temper-he brilliantly analyzed the condition of man in the modern world. Now in the 1950s, by the grace of his intellectual power, imagination and humanity, he has used it to the benefit of the whole world...
Against this invasion the bargemen have fought long and hard-ever since Texas Eastern first asked FPC permission in 1954. But the FPC ruled that the Texas Eastern products line would benefit the public by stimulating competition, even though it might hurt the barge business. Already big Midwest refiners are seeking ways to use the proposed Chicago spur to their profit, while Sinclair, Texas and Gulf are talking about a similar products line to be constructed next year from outside Philadelphia to Cleveland. In addition, Texas Eastern got FPC permission last year to spend $74.7 million on a 422-mile...
...museum director does not crop a Rembrandt painting to fit the space on the wall; nor do music publishers and performers "correct" Beethoven's and Chopin's "mistakes" as they used to. We should be allowed to judge a play just as the author left it, without the benefit of the director's superior insight as to how it ought to have been written. And, of all Shakespeare's plays, Othello is the one that most unhappily suffers cutting. The playing-time of this production is 165 minutes; the restoration of all the cuts would make the total running-time...
While the advance of the ribbons of pavement will benefit the lives of many Americans, it will harshly disrupt the lives of many others. More than 2,000,000 acres of land will have to be bought to make way for the federal highway network alone. Roads will slice through densely populated cities and suburbs, displacing thousands of dwellers. They will cut across thousands of farms from coast to coast, often separating a farmer's house from his fields and forcing him to detour for miles to get from one side of his land to the other. Last week...