Word: benefiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their farm and industrial products. Baltimore would grow greater as a port, reached by the C. & 0., B. & 0., and Pennsylvania. This is important in view of the growing commerce with South America. New York City might also be relieved of some of her traffic congestion, to the benefit of shippers, if to the chagrin of trans-shippers. Neighboring cities might benefit, places like Port Newark, N. J., and Norfolk, Va. All four railroad systems would carry grain and manufactured articles eastward. The Pennsylvania, C. & O. and B. & O. would go through soft coal country (western Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia...
...strange, therefore, that Canada should have assumed an attitude apparently so unfriendly in regard to Volstead enforcement. The Canadian government, which once struggled to execute the prohibition law in its own country, now finds the American system of tremendous financial benefit. Furthermore, its decision to allow so powerful a neighbor to fight its own battles to a finish cannot be criticized on this side of the border. Only too often, this has been the method of procedure employed by the United States...
These considerations should make it obvious enough that abnormal psychology can benefit by contact with other university sciences. Whether or not the converse is true, whether abnormal psychology has a contribution to make to Harvard, that remains to be seen. It is our prejudice of course that psychopathology makes for value...
Abnormal psychology provides a double-barrelled benefit to its devotees; for it is not only a field which calls forth all one's resources of imaginative empathy and ordering reason; but it exposes the self to the self. In every psychosis one sees fragmentary versions of oneself dissected out by disease. This leads inevitably to self-revelation and progressive insights. Metaphorically speaking, such experiences expand consciousness. In James' language "I the Knower" looks into the psychic mirror and sees a larger "Me the Known...
These remarks evoked a storm of criticism from the foreign students gathered at the meeting, and the speaker was met on all of his arguments. It was argued that the present trend of materialism has concentrated its efforts for the benefit of the people now on the spot, a position diametrically opposed to that with which the country was established and settled...