Word: rewarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today he has the reward of patience, of self-discipline and of that kind of shrewdness which sometimes is inherent in very simple men. Peace and trade are his sole philosophy and at Buenos Aires his single track, so far as man can see, goes on to that horizon...
...departure. No more were heard. By last week the indignation of citizens of San Perlita was at boiling point. The men did not come home that night, or the next, or the next. They sneered at their own Sheriff William Cragg, who offered a reward of $250 for the return of the Blantons "dead or alive." Citizens gathered with arms and would have invaded the King Ranch had not Texas Rangers appeared. Captain William McMurray of the Rangers persuaded them to declare a three-day truce to give the Law a chance to find the bodies-for no one doubted...
...Chicago has clung to honestly amateur standards. Recruiting varies in blatancy among the other nine, and at Wisconsin there has recently been under discussion a plan to organize "athletic scholarships" specifically for ability upon the playing field, and to create a fund to be administered by the dean, to reward these cave...
...Rome made ingenious comparisons, asking foreign correspondents to reflect on precedents afforded by their own governments. Thus President Theodore Roosevelt, whether or not he provoked an insurgent rising in the United States of Colombia, made haste to recognize the insurgents in the Colombian province of Panama and as his reward obtained the Canal Zone, ultimately squaring Colombia with $25,000,000. Had Colombia, instead, taken a belligerent course, reconquering Panama and the Zone, the prestige of Washington would have suffered as much as will that of Berlin and Rome if the Whites are defeated in Spain. This week, European observers...
...three high-school horses, Vast, Si Murray and Olympic, can each do 135 different tricks. Each trick has a technical name like the piaffé (trotting on one spot), the passage (highly accentuated trot with slight forward movement). His horses get neither beatings for punishment nor carrots for reward. The best that they can hope for is an occasional pat. The immobility of a good dressage rider is actually an illusion. He achieves his effects by shifts of weight so slight as to be imperceptible, pressure on the bit so gentle that Vast, Si Murray or Olympic can perform with...