Word: rewarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finally, the real purpose of this letter is not to spill out my indignation concerning these misconceptions of the Crimson, but to inform those men who will be sophomores next year and who have the desire but not the will to concentrate in the Classics, that the reward of the effort and the facilities for instruction will be much greater than they may have been led to think. J. F. Hayward...
...dishonest, and superficial criticism flourishes, and as the inevitable consequence, equally faulty and unmerited praise. The arts are the gravest sufferers in this respect, as the apathy of the public leads them to accept supinely, as Olympian, the judgments of the numerous committees founded to ferret but and annually reward the best work done. Chief among these, and the one whose decisions carry the most weight with the people, is the Pulitzer Prize Committee...
...since distinguished himself in Illinois by attempting unsuccessfully to swing the downstate vote away from his former running mate when Governor Horner ran for re-election in 1936. In Washington he has voted consistently for the New Deal, but last winter any hope Franklin Roosevelt might have entertained to reward Mr. Dieterich's loyalty was thwarted. Governor Horner and Chicago's Mayor Edward Joseph Kelly paid separate visits to the White House, each to say that this year he would support not Dieterich but a candidate of his own choice. Result was that Mr. Dieterich regretfully decided...
...offender, notify the proper tax division (income, estate, gift, etc.). When a suspect is found guilty and forced to pay up, the informer fills out a neatly printed claim blank and passes it on for certification by a tax collector, the U. S. District Attorney, the Revenue Commissioner. His reward, which varies with the value of his information and the amount of help he gives in recovering the taxes, averages 2½% of the sum recovered...
...former partners, divorced wives who knew too much about their former husbands. In one case, however, it was a loving wife who tipped off the Bureau on her husband's dodge, explaining: "I wanted to keep him from going to jail." For her errand of devotion she scorned reward...