Word: benefiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Receiver. If the judge is honest, the receiver may not be. He may juggle assets and disbursements to creditors to his own benefit. He may abscond with pockets stuffed with ready cash. He may appoint a small army of assistants, attorneys, experts and examiners who do nothing more effective than materially reduce the fund for creditor distribution...
...position to exercise its control to the injury of the public. Men who are working for their own profit have, by the very nature of things, more interest in their job than men working for the government." He believes that the power monopoly can and does benefit the people, and this he is confident he can prove this afternoon...
...books, dog stories are probably the least fruitful of results for a reviewer. Readers are divided up into the more or less air-tight groups of those that like them and those that do not, and by now the latter have already turned to another article. For the benefit of the others, "Bugle" is one of the better dog stories. It deals with the adventures attendant upon the life of a hunting dog in the wilder regions of the West, and there is no lack of action in the incidents leading up to a stirring climax in the fight with...
...solved judiciously by anyone who is not a specialist in the field involved. And yet the feeling has been that the professors, who were in many cases the best fitted by their special knowledge to deal with these difficult problems, have denied the world at large the benefit of their immediate cooperation...
...undergraduates prepare for the transition would be welcomed, and in particular such a one as in the present instance, where the individual's interests coincide so directly with those of the prospective employer. To be sure, only a very small fraction of even the leading contestants can expect to benefit in so direct a way, but the experiment is in the right direction and offers one means of solution to a difficult problem...