beneficences

Its sacrifices to the war on inflation bloodied the cutting-room floor with lost Federal beneficences — 158,000 public-service jobs, 250,000 summer jobs, 25,000 subsidized housing units, $400 million in school lunch subsidies, $600 million in social-security trims and much more.

The Politics of Austerity 2009

Boxing Day is traditionally the day in which the upper class would give beneficences to those of the lower class.

Happy Boxing Day 2005

Boxing Day is traditionally the day in which the upper class would give beneficences to those of the lower class.

Archive 2005-12-01 2005

Our further inquiry as to w hat sorts of other things wounded soldiers recuperating ther e would like to receive was met with the news that the patie nts had everything they needed and the Red Cross was asking folks to please not send anything more at this time and to check back with them no earlier than January 2005 regarding further beneficences.

Archive 2004-12-01 2004

Possibly he would have referred to it as ANNUS MIRABILIS, not because of bewildering disasters, such as plagues and fires and floods, and falling stars, but because of its genialities, its uniform and, so far, persistent beneficences, and its charms.

Last Leaves from Dunk Island 2003

The above beneficences require outright giving; but there are many ways in which the fraternal spirit of men works to cause men to treat each other in business affairs more liberally than they would if competition were the only governing motive.

Monopolies and the People Charles Whiting Baker

Prior or a Sub-prior, a sort of clerical administrator who, crippled in means and in influence, was sometimes unable, sometimes unwilling, to carry out the duties and beneficences of past ages, and who was always the victim of a great injustice.

Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 Elise Whitlock Rose

They cover, in part, a phase of Mr. Carnegie's activities that is not so widely known as are his beneficences, and were revealed only to his friends.

Personal Recollections of Andrew Carnegie 1920

Stillman's hidden gratitude, his private beneficences, did not serve her purpose, but the spectacle of him in the rôle of her debtor was a sight that went

The Blood Red Dawn Charles Caldwell Dobie 1912

And there it and its valiant brothers in misfortune swung together in a double row, with a cobblestone dangling from the bottom plate, reminding the passing world of remedial beneficences it might too readily forget, attesting to the fact that life's worst fractures might in some way still be made whole.

Never-Fail Blake Arthur Stringer 1912