Word: benefits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been my good fortune to have the opportunity of reading your valuable magazine TIME. I find much pleasure and benefit by reading TIME. I make bold to write these few lines with a view that you would perhaps like to know what an Indian (Hindoo) thinks about your news magazine...
...dependent and slow moving nation little is known to the world about its movements and culture, habits, on the contrary sometimes the foreigners carry and propagate strange notions about this large country and its people. Hence I request to say that you will be doing justice to India and benefit to the whole world if you care to print something real and solid about India. B. R. TELI, Pandit...
...benefit of those who do not remember, it may be recounted that Shaw assembled four of the finest physicians in London and made three of them ridiculous in the acid comments of the fourth, snow-haired dean of the profession. Woven through the ridicule is the dilemma. Shall the great doctor who has discovered a quick cure for tuberculosis apply it to a worthy, unsuccessful fellow man-of-medicine, or to a blackguard artist who can paint great pictures. He cannot cure both; his perplexity is enhanced by his passion for the artist's wife...
...Boni ($2.50). Once again fuming, foaming Upton Sinclair girds himself beyond all reason, leaps on his lame but willing steed, and (like Stephen Leacock's famed knight) rides off in all directions. According to Upton, the successful writers of today write either consciously or unconsciously for the benefit of nasty Wall Street. Most of Money Writes! is devoted to a mildly interesting, not very convincing attempt to prove this theory. One by one Joseph Herges-heimer, Gertrude Atherton, et al., are pointed at with the finger of scorn and it is all pretty terrible-if true. Upton Sinclair...
...during the Reading Period the University is doubtless placing a great amount of trust in undergraduate ability. That trust is not without foundation; this particular demonstration of it, nevertheless, appears at the present time likely to fallacy. If ever there were a time when the student should have the benefit of his tutor's advice it is during this coming period. Tutorial conferences need not entail tutorial reading in these three weeks--course reading will be sufficiently large to occupy the student; tutorial conferences do, however, offer opportunities wherein the student may approach his tutor for advice...