Word: rewarded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Munro says his team "played the best game of the season" Tuesday, and yesterday he gave a day off from practice as a reward...
...henceforth to take all my problems, spiritual and otherwise, to the new electronic thinking machine. I must say, it didn't do too badly on the first test to which I put it; when asked to compute the odds on the infallibility of a pontiff who could thus reward the unspeakable Mr. Hearst, it ground out the answer in jig time: 5,463,941,278,336 to 1 against...
Thrill-Murderer Nathan Leopold, 44, who has served 25 years of a 99-year sentence for the kidnap-killing of 14-year-old Bobby Franks back in 1924 (Partner Richard Loeb was stabbed to death by a fellow inmate in 1936), got a reward for his volunteer guinea-pig service in wartime malaria experiments: commutation of his term to 85 years (making him eligible to apply for a parole in January...
Simple Desires. To King, the reward was welcome but not surprising. His sugary three-quarter-time, he admits, has already made him "a little better than a millionaire." It has paid for a luxurious grey Georgian house in Chicago's suburban Kenilworth, a 680-acre Ottawa, Ill. feeder farm where cattle are fattened for market, and a 640-acre hunting reservation in Wisconsin. Last week, puffing thoughtfully on one of his 300 pipes (briars, clays and cobs), King explained why his style is so successful: "There are many people whose musical desires are very simple. We try to play...
Czechoslovakia has called upon its National Union of Students for voluntary work-brigades since April, 1948--two months after the Communists came into power. Czech universities reward work brigade members with "special concessions on examinations for participants," and students in coal-mining brigades receive special make-up courses...