Word: rewarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sarah wears a red collar sent to her many years ago by an admirer, which bears the inscription: "To Sarah, the College Cat, Cambridge." So if anyone finds Sarah, the Yard Cope would welcome her back with open arms; and there is a hint that a reward might be paid...
Told he might be offered a reward, well-trained little Diplomat Alonso exclaimed: "A reward for what-doing my duty? . . . Give it in food to needy families or in toys to poor children...
Last week Secretary Wallace put his 1937 model on display for farmers' inspection. Costing the same $500,000,000, it was basically identical with the apparatus whipped together last spring after the Supreme Court had ruled the AAAct off the road. As a reward for diverting their acres from "soil-depleting" crops (cotton, wheat, corn, tobacco) to "soil-building" crops (alfalfa, soybeans, grasses), farmers will receive Federal bounties averaging slightly less than $10 per acre. Thus, by the back door of soil conservation, the New Deal will continue to achieve some production control of cash crops, which the Supreme...
Fundamental difference between the AAAct and its current substitute is that under the former the farmer was bound by contract to reduce his cash crops by specified percentages. Now he reduces them voluntarily within Department of Agriculture specifications and is rewarded according to the extent of his cooperation. But to control next year's corn crop, the Department last week proposed to set definite acreage limits, enforced by an extra reward and a penalty...
...hardly worth the candle. One would need a singular degree of optimism to expect all the gentlemen around us, now the proud possessors of the best football teams that money can buy, immediately to metamorphose into little angels. Virtue will, in all probability, continue to be its own reward...