Word: reaping
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...roamed the country, peddled worthless watches, fished, worked in the fields, schemed, got drunk and lost everything, time & again. August, always on the way up or down, never got anywhere; but Edevart nearly made his pile, succeeded at least in giving his young brother the chance to reap where he had sowed. When he was skipper for Trader Knoff, Edevart was the big man of Polden, and brought a short-lived prosperity to his native hamlet. But he was always too kindhearted, the roguery he learned from August never really became part of him; and another man's wife...
...State in which dead bank robbers are worth more than live ones*.Texas bankers go further, offer $5,000 per corpse. This sum has been paid five times in five years. Last April two Negroes were lured into bank robbery at Fort Worth so that four white men might reap $10,000 bounty for killing them...
...erection of comfortable and convenient living quarters for the law students is a project that would reap substantial benefits. The imaginary fear that such paternalistic pampering would soften the moral fibre of the future lawyers is more than offset by the relief of a crowded and inadequate housing situation...
...Harvard's pace is quickening; candidates and editors from 1932 and 1933 will be eye-witnesses to the most comprehensive developments in Harvard history. This evening, Sophomores and Juniors may enter competitions for the board of the CRIMSON. Some will fall; some will succeed. Those who succeed reap their rewards in continued enjoyment of their work. Those who fail cannot help having gained experience. Perhaps that experience will not be employed in editing, business, reporting, or photography. Certainly, however, it will have a definite personal value...
...cynicism, teaches that the high hopes of the fanatical candidates for the episcopacy of the Stock Exchange will be crushed; the most they can hope for is elevation to the post of rector in a quiet country parsonage, where they can continue to pay their financial reverence and reap the rewards of honest labor by selling bonds to the inhabitants of the rural bailiwick...