Word: profited
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...dance this winter will be given on a far more economical basis than in previous years, and whatever profit is made will be turned over to the Red Cross...
...Baker, our Secretary of War, has arrived on French soil for the purpose of investigating military conditions there. No obligation of his office required him to undergo the rigors and risks of such an adventure--and he may have been needed at home--but he cannot fail to profit by the experience. His remark before the Senate committee that the war was 3,000 miles away, in giving an answer to the question why he had not moved more rapidly towards preparation, has been symptomatic of his state of mind. He can now realize what war at hand means...
...accommodated in the Central Library, the North Cambridge branch library, the East Cambridge branch library, and certain other school halls. The plans as completed yesterday will put approximately 4,000 more children under school discipline, or its equivalent, and a great many of the remaining 8,000 will profit by the instruction to be offered at the University
...armies include many men taken from the middle of their college career. Boys who have not even completed a preparatory school course are often old enough to fight. Although some may take up their work where they left it, yet others must consider their education finished. Such soldiers will profit most from the university. Whether they return to studies or not, their future welfare often depends on their continuing, or at least, not forgetting their mental training...
...using graham twice a week, so we conserve only a relatively small amount of fuel by dimming out lights. But, as the household, because it has the spirit, helps materially to prevent waste, so the student body can check needless consumption. We shall back up an actual physical profit by the knowledge of having done as much as possible to preserve the vital supplies of the nation...