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Word: benefiting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Carnival, "A Night at St. Moritz," for the benefit of the New York Music Week Association at Madison Square Garden, Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Table: Dec. 30, 1929 | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...carnival, " A Night at Saint Moritz," for the benefit of the New York Music Week Association; at Madison Square Garden, Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Table: Dec. 23, 1929 | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy chapters involving quantum mechanics!" So exclaimed Sir James Hopwood Jeans, eminent British mathematician, for the benefit of struggling scholars. But he did not mean the remark literally. It was a sentence he had thought up to help them remember pi (the quotient of diameter into circumference) carried out to the 14th decimal (3.14159265358979) by the number of letters in each word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pi | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...Thursday, making it compulsory to attend classes on the Friday and Saturday directly after the holidays. To some this is perfectly reasonable, as enough classes meet in those days to make the return to Cambridge worth-while. But to those who are reading in all courses save one, the benefit to be gained from attending a single class on Friday or Saturday can hardly compensate for docking what would otherwise be three days off the vacation period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BACK TO CAMBRIDGE | 12/20/1929 | See Source »

...college should grant the extra day or two as an extended vacation period to men who have only one or two classes before the week-end. It will be hardly reasonable to expect men to return next year for Saturday classes when January 2 falls on a Friday. The benefit of the single class cannot offset the benefit of two extra day's holiday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BACK TO CAMBRIDGE | 12/20/1929 | See Source »

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