Word: benefited
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...from making do-nothing fatalists of men, Calvin's doctrine of the elect attracted millions all over Europe and America and made them dedicated doers. Calvin, who was confident of his own election, found the dreadful doctrine "productive of the most delightful benefit." The same warming certainty of salvation helped the Huguenots stand fast in France; it stiffened the Dutch defending Holland and nourished the Puritanism...
...behind personal income's growing stability? Though each recession has been marked by a fairly sharp decline in income resulting from current production (3% in the 1960 recession), that fall is usually balanced by other factors. People still continue to collect about the same dividends and interest. Benefit payments, such as unemployment compensation and old-age pensions (laid-off oldsters frequently retire), always increase during a recession. They rose from $27.7 billion to $31.1 billion in the year up to February 1961. The level of personal income is also buoyed up during recessions by smaller tax collections, since...
Died. Jos'eph E. Howard, 94, veteran showman, author of 28 musical comedies, more than 500 songs (I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now), an ebullient entertainer for eight decades who married his ninth wife at 87, had just finished a benefit show, was blowing a kiss to his accompanist when he collapsed on the stage of the Civic Opera House; in Chicago...
Rugby at Harvard has been on the upswing in recent years, but this season faced a rebuilding task in more ways than one. It had to play a spring season without benefit of a vacation training trip, forbidden by the Faculty Committee on Athletics because of alleged misconduct last year in Bermuda...
...must be the duty of the new intellectuals (i.e., "any man or woman who is willing to think.") to lead America out of this cultural vacuum, back to Miss Rand's rationalistic, self-interest dominated society where men "deal with one another as traders, by voluntary exchange to mutual benefit...