Word: benefited
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Scott, an authority on trusts, received the $1,000 Ledlie Prize for the individual at the University who has "made the most valuable contribution to science, or to the benefit of mankind" for his "Treatise on Trusts," published...
...obtained 2,500,000 Negro signatures and proposed the Greater Liberia act, which called for federal aid in the voluntary repatriation of Negroes who were illegally brought against their will to this hemisphere as slaves. A revival of this bill would indeed settle the present racial conflict for the benefit of both races...
...discredit and persecution may be the consequence of testimony. That is why Prof. Edward S. Corwin was able to make the following statement of fact in his annotations of the Constitution: "The privilege exists solely for the protection of the witness himself, and may not be claimed for the benefit of third parties" (i.e., acknowledged Communists may not refuse to name others known to them if that information is sought in the pursuance of a valid judicial or legislative objective...
...true love, Czechoslovakia's Olympic Discus-Throw Champion Olga Filcotova, 24, in Prague. With famed Czech Distance Runner Emil Zatopek as best man, Roman Catholic Connolly, according to a U.S. embassy spokesman, was slated to take his Protestant bride in a civil ceremony (for the Red authorities' benefit), followed by Catholic and Protestant rites...
Over an eye-glazing bowl of punch based on a Spanish drink called "Blood" * Beaumont beat out his 20th Century Folk Mass last week for the benefit of his church servers, who clustered around the vicarage piano. Designed for use by a small orchestra, or combo, the Mass sometimes sounds romantic echoes of Sigmund Romberg (the Credo), sometimes switches to a "beguine tempo" (Kyrie, Agnus Dei), sometimes soars in the harmonies of the Negro spiritual ("0 praise God in his ho-li-ness") or thumps with a syncopated bass ("We praise Thee, we bless Thee we praise Thee, we bless...