Word: benefits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time for an intellectual liquidation of the assets and liabilities of the Reading Period is still remote. If, however, its assets are arranged in the chronological order of their appearance, the benefit to the professors, tutors, instructors, and assistants of the University will, like the name of Abou Ben Adhem, lead all the rest. For it is already clear that the respite from lectures, conferences, and section meetings has given the faculty an invaluable opportunity to do its own research work...
...method was introduced by D. J. Kelly Assistant Director of Physical Education. The new way enables undergraduates to sign up in the morning for half of the courts, and the remaining half is saved for student who can sign up only in the afternoon. This will be of benefit to graduate students who find it inconvenient to secure courts at 8 o'clock...
...clergy, vowed to poverty, obedience and chastity. They live a monastic life, but technically are not monks. Their servants do the chores around the St. Bernard hospice; and since the 11th Century snow-rescue work has been one of the chores. All was ready for a demonstration for the benefit of the visitors last week. But the visitors were not from the U. S. They were members of an Italian cinema troupe, come to make a realistic film of the dogs in action with their attendants. The Augustinians were willing. But the troupe, having reached its destination...
...Students of social sciences devoured the information greedily. Dry are the subjects (economics, political relations, government administration, etc.), perhaps, to the casual student to whom education means plenty of furious football. Robert Somers Brookings long ago thought otherwise. Orphaned at two he went to work at 16 without the benefit of education interspersed with footballs. At the age of 22 he became a member of the reorganized firm of Samuel Cupples & Co., St. Louis, and re mained its manager for a quarter century. During that time the Cupples Company was agent for many firms; owner of potent enterprises. So shrewd...
...last fortnight (TIME, Dec. 19). Last week, when they altered and passed the Revenue Act, the Representatives overrode the Ways & Means Committee at two points and voted to cut the people's taxes by $289,735,000. The first alteration, reducing tax revenues some 24 millions, aimed to benefit corporations with incomes of $15,000 or less. Such corporations constitute about 70% of all U. S. taxpaying corporations. Leaving the tax on larger corporate incomes fixed at 11½%, the amendment graded small corporate incomes taxes as follows: 5% on $7,000 or less, 7% from...