Word: benefits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conant's "leadership will be missed as his influence will be felt in Germany," said John Sloan Dickey, president of Dartmouth. Grayson Kirk of Columbia said that Conant has given Harvard an "administration of incalculable benefit not only to his own institution, but to all higher education in the country." Kirk, who succeeds Eisenhower, added that "no more appropriate appointment could have been made...
Whether St. Thomas actually preached under the palm trees of Travancore and Cochin is a point that historians have neither proved nor disproved. But nowadays there are 2,357,000 Indian Christians in the area, and for the past month, giving St. Thomas the benefit of the doubt, they have been celebrating the 1900th anniversary of his landing...
...coming amateur boxer (85 straight victories), Sugar Ray Robinson firmly resolved: "They'll never hold a benefit for me." He pursued the dollar with the same single-mindedness that brought him two world championships-the welterweight (147 Ibs.) and middleweight (160 Ibs.) titles-and carried him through 137 professional fights with only three defeats. By last week, worth an estimated $300,000 from shrewd investments (real estate, a bar, a dry-cleaning establishment), he knew that the time had come to quit. Said Sugar Ray, in a flowery farewell to the ring: "I do not feel...
...will ever have to hold a benefit for Sugar Ray. In the months before he finally made up his mind to retire, he had already moved into a new career in show business. His current salary as a tap dancer: a reported $10,000 a week...
...health services by its absence," the commission lamented. It charged that the most highly skilled doctors, dentists and nurses waste too much time doing jobs that less highly trained technicians could do as well or better, and that a lot of expensive equipment is not properly used for the benefit of doctor and patient. To get things running better, the commission urged...