Word: benefiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have been a member of the much abused Klan for years, and I expect to be a member as long as I live and the need for such an organization in these United States exists. I have never received any financial benefit from my membership; on the contrary it has cost me a considerable sum to attend the various meetings, etc. The only benefit received by myself has been the strengthening of my patriotism, my love of Country...
...status as a minor sport golf resembles polo. The machinery of each makes it caviar to the general, and thus neither has any financial rating in an athletics-for-all policy. Although golf must be content with its present lot in the Harvard budget, one indirect benefit has appeared. Greens fees and expensive course privileges may have put' golf on an undemocratic basis, but the sport not enjoyed by the many is given a clear position of importance that is, if nothing else, honorary...
...Club is extending its field of activities in a new direction. It is giving assistance and information to newly formed clubs in other colleges and universities. The clerical work of the club is mainly devoted to gathering statistics and information of past years for the benefit of other growing clubs. The competition will be of six weeks duration, at the end of which time about 15 men will be taken into membership...
...called for all this outlay from the U.S. Treasury, local communities contributing only one third of the costs of raising old levees to their proper level, and the land for new levees. Congressmen from States watered by the Mississippi's tributaries, which the Jones bill did not benefit, were bridling and bickering. To spur their debates to a modest conclusion, President Coolidge hinted that he might have the War Department proceed at once with anti-flood construction, using the authority of the Rivers & Harbors Act and money from the current Army appropriations...
...University Glee Club is now directing its energies toward the production of "King David" in Symphony Hall, Sunday afternoon, April 1. The performance will be for the benefit of the Pension Fund...