Word: benefits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...headlines with axe murders. In fact, the new project's combination of therapy, teaching, and research turned out to be a very good one. The students made willing and interested guinea pigs, and the patients--sent to the Clinic by other agencies; the Clinic takes none directly--got the benefit of the staff's newest researches. The Clinic has built up a considerable reputation for its work, which ranged from research in hypnotism to experiments in the psychology of jokes. Since the war, research has lagged a bit because the staff's energies were diverted to the problems of teaching...
...said the critics (and for the sixth time), the best "regular symphony conductor": his performance of Verdi's A'ida (TIME, April' 4) was "the outstanding event of the year," and the National Broadcasting Go. (which has put Toscanini on the air for nine years without benefit of sponsors) was "the network most faithful to serious music...
...persuade the instructor to go over the examination with him, he still has no way of knowing what was good and what was poor in his paper. Part of self-education is to profit by one's own mistakes. Seniors in particular, preparing for General Examinations, can benefit enormously by reviewing old bluebooks. In other words, the same technique used by conscientious section men who pencil marginal comments in hour exams, should be extended to finals...
...SHMOOS? Results of the poll last week swept the Shmoos out of Britain and back into the Valley of the Shmoon. For the Shmoo: 3,750. Against the Shmoo: 7,552. Admitted the Pic: "We dropped a brick. We pulled a boner, made a howler, a bloomer." For the benefit of true-blue Shmoo-lovers, the newspaper ran a synopsis of the unpublished part of Capp's Shmoo sequence. It also printed a perplexed farewell: "Critics have called the Shmoos 'the greatest satire since Swift's Gulliver's Travels . . .' It's odd that, though...
...only typhoid carriers to benefit from the new drugs are those...