Word: benefits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...regarded as a poor President, was a professional soldier, although (like Washington), he was out of the Army between wars. His faults were not those associated with Caesarism. His troubles arose from trusting friends who turned out to be crooks-a situation which Harry Truman got himself into without benefit of professional military training...
...without the aid of a camera. There are also vivid geometric abstractions in water color, and a construction in chrome and lucite. Another of Moholy-Nagy's innovations is a seeming monstrosity called a light machine. It is used to project abstract light images on a screen for the benefit of abstract motion pictures...
...lamps that have been installed at tremendous cost in Widener Library. Besides being a general nuisance, these new light 1) irritate the eyes. 2) hum. 3) flicker. It is this combination that leads me to ask who wanted these lights put in. Supposedly, they were put in for our benefit. Now let's see them taken out again, at least from the small reading rooms of Widener's main hall. Then students who prefer direct lighting may once more study there. But as it stands now, I see no reason for wearing bifocals just because Mr. Metcalf prefers fiuorescent lamps...
...temptation to a tax collector to supplement his small income by accepting favors from tax-paying individuals. But there is also another difficulty. The tax collector is responsible directly to the government and indirectly to the people, very few of whom will condone dishonesty unless it redounds to their benefit. College administrations are responsible to relatively smaller groups of people, of whom a relatively larger proportion value winning teams and Rose Bowl bids above symbols of "amateurism...
WHRB will begin broadcasting music around the clock at 4 p.m. today for the benefit of the book-weary and exam-laden. The Network's popular and classical music "orgies" will be on the air until the end of reading period...