Word: benefiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...require the Commission to effect "equitable" assignments of waves and wattages among the broadcasting stations, on a basis of population in five zones of the U. S. The effect may be to cut the franchises of the rich, long-established stations in the New York and Chicago zones to benefit Southern and lower-Midwestern stations. But the bill's flexible language seemed to permit "borrowing" of unused waves and wattages among the zones...
April 23, benefit concert at the Veterans' Hospital; May 1, concert by certain of the clubs at the Freshman Smoker; May 7, Brattle Hall; May 14, the Women's City Club at the Fine Arts Theatre; May 29, the Freshman Jubilee...
...examination of the report shows, particularly active. Changes in the scope of the latter committee's endeavors have subdued the emphasis formerly placed on Harvard delegations to churches, and given more attention to the preparatory school visits. Such a change is sure to react more directly to the benefit of the college itself...
...prosperous people of the world who have obtained positions of prominence without benefit of college have always been scornful of the value of education. In the popular mind, students spend their days in a kind of lotus-eating existence devoted to the pleasures and dissipations of the campus, with an occasional hour or so devoted to study just before examinations. Without any facts or figures to prove the contrary students have had to bear the stigma in silence. Their justification has been attempted by the University of idaho, and despite the complications which the entertainments of a nearby city produce...
...orchestra with a sound financial backing that will guarantee the continuance of the musical traditions of the two societies. "By bringing the friends of both societies into a single organization, to create a fund for the pensioning of superannuated members of the orchestra, and a sick and death benefit fund. "To undertake the erection of a new hall that will serve as a suitable and permanent home for the new orchestra. "To enlarge the educational work of the society by making available to musical students and school children in the City of New York a greater number of concerts...