Word: rewarded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...monthly visits to tree-shaded Coshocton, where his wife and his unmarried daughter Clara still live in a green-shuttered, red-brick house, Bill Green enjoys the aura which is the reward of famous...
Turning next to the Camellia Room of the Lafayette, we find Friday and Saturday evening dancing on a good sized floor well-stocked with university aged people. A small Marshard unit is the reward for the $2.00 minimum, and as the room grows increasingly darker, the music, through sheer coincidence, becomes increasingly slower. With good dancing, adequate food and liquor, and a quite informal atmosphere, the Camellia Room is a good choice when parietal rules terminate in-room entertaining...
Fame. As a promotion stunt, Porters, a furniture store in Racine, Wis., has lent umbrellas to some 7,000 shoppers marooned by rain. Gratefully, all but three of the shoppers have returned the umbrellas. Porters' reward: A pat on the back from the American Education Press's My Weekly Reader, which cited this as an example of the inherent honesty of the public...
...Lush Life. Jake Kramer's reward for being champion is the circus-performer's life of the big-time tennis circuit. He is dined, lunched, swum and bathroomed by the rich-and he doesn't particularly like it, but considers it part of the racket. On the West Coast, he gets invitations to visit tennis-minded movie stars, but almost invariably turns them down. "They always want to play tennis," he says, "and with a few exceptions they can't play tennis ... so you have a lousy time...
Even now a professor emeritus, certainly one who is a professor of physics, should not despair. Every indication warns that in the impending World War III only those who have mastered "the intricacies of research" can become the directors of physical might. Then will the obscure have their recognition, reward and revenge in destroying the humanity they have labored in obscurity to serve. Reader Hull, like any good scientist, must realize that the distant goal has not been made unattainable by the latest development. He and the rest to whom the presidency of Columbia University was the ultimate need merely...