Word: rewarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ohio, the roads for miles were taken over by strikers who stopped traffic of every description. They called it "Strike Law." Airplanes, making regular flights to deliver food to the plants at Warren and Niles, were sniped at and repeatedly hit by rifle bullets. The company offered $1,000 reward (unclaimed) for information leading to the arrest and conviction of snipers...
Purpose conceived was that the book so published should serve as an indication of the best sort of work done in College and as a reward for distinctive originality of thought and approach...
...business was for the new Prime Minister to "advise" His Majesty to confer an earldom and a knighthood in the Order of the Garter on Mr. Baldwin, to create Mrs. Lucy Baldwin a Dame 'Grand Cross of the British Empire. The Earl and his Countess thus reaped the reward of their joint services to the country, could retire among their pigs in Worcestershire with the calm eye, the warm glow that bespeak the performance of hard work well-recompensed...
Principals in the fight were Hollywood's Bob Nestell, whose latest pugilistic accomplishment was a bit part in Kid Galahad, and New York's Bob Pastor, who last winter avoided being knocked out by Joe Louis by running away for ten rounds. Pastor's reward for knocking Nestell down twice, winning easily in ten rounds: an offer of a screen contract...
...Trainer Conway, last week's victory was the reward of an extraordinary campaign of which the purpose was not so much to turn War Admiral into the best race horse in the U. S. as to turn him into a horse healthy and hale enough to race at all. As a two-year-old, War Admiral last year won three races, finished second twice, third once. Offsetting his speed and good blood he had one dangerous defect: he was delicate. Last winter, instead of growing as a two-year-old should, he showed signs of remaining the same size...