Word: reapings
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...like it or not, will not be too hard, and I am encouraged by the fact that never, I believe, in the history of the two countries have their relations been so friendly and cordial as now. Indeed, it seems to me that my chief duty will be to reap what my predecessors have sown...
...have traded on his reputation. It is not generally known that Steinach is not a surgeon himself and does not perform on human beings the operation that goes by his name. He has not, in fact, received any income from his discoveries, but has allowed regular practitioners to reap the financial benefits. As a result, his own experimental work has languished, the diminished purchasing power of the krone making prohibitive the upkeep of the essential laboratory animals...
Probably merchants who are following this policy-and while they are in a minority, still there are many of them-will reap extensive profits this Autumn. But next Spring they may be called upon to pay the bill for it themselves...
...most important factor in the term is, of course, the end of Term Examinations, when the unfortunate youth who has spent his time in pleasures will come the inevitable cropper, while the studious scholar will reap his expected reward...
...outside of the classroom, which he himself would be quick to acknowledge as of almost equal importance, in the aggregate, with instruction itself. Perhaps we are wrong in thinking that the younger men, in respect to physique and character, are already at a disadvantage, and find themselves unable to reap a full harvest in the fields of "interests and activities." It is true that the present century is far slower in developing its youths than the past have been. The Elizabethans were taking their degrees at our age of matriculation. But we may answer than in England...