Word: rewarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rebellion. Disguised as a beggar, Yao made the 90-mile trip on foot through country overrun with Boxers who were killing every Christian-Chinese or foreign-they could find. Captured many times, Yao always talked himself out. For his heroism Yao was offered a copper medal and later a reward of 1,000 taels. An ardent Christian, he thought that figure too high, gladly accepted the medal and 500 taels. From the income of this invested reward he still lives happily here on a few dollars a month, spends most of his time with his pet meadow lark, the rest...
Tama-nishiki in the final. The match, of titanic length for Japanese wrestlers, whose endurance is not their most noteworthy characteristic, lasted three minutes. When the referee waved his fan over the winner, puffing Tama-nishiki advanced to the centre of the ring, had himself photographed holding the traditional reward of a yokozuna: the huge silver Emperor's Cup. Sumo has nothing to do with jujitsu or its modernized form judo, the art of self-defense in 250 holds which is compulsory in all Japanese schools. Sumo started in 23 B.C., long before jujitsu had been thought of. Winner...
...felicitous double bill of "The Informer" and "Her Master's Voice". Victor McLaglen's astonishing ascent from his usual dead-pan broken-nose roles to his characterization of an informer in the Black and Tan uprisings in Dublin in 1922, giving away his pal to the police for the reward, attempting to drown his remorse in a night of mighty and generous carousal, and finally, confronted with the incontrovertible fact of his treachery, fleeing the vengeance of his pal's friends, only to be shot down and to die a bewildered repentant at the foot of an altar...
Then came an unexpected reward for good work quickly done. Strolling contentedly among his third-generation hybrids, Mr. Burpee was astounded to spy a golden super-double hybrid nasturtium with nearly 60 petals and three inches across. This was the result of a chance mutation, an obscure dislocation of the hereditary mechanism of the sort that many a geneticist holds responsible for evolution. "The nasturtium was most carefully watched," said Grower Burpee, "in every stage of development. Every flower was examined and it was discovered that these super-double flowers were entirely female sterile. They kept on blooming and never...
...this can hardly be more conclusive than the example of the Government's other scheme for taking money out of the hands of one group and placing it in those of another, the redistribution implied in payments to veterans. This began with an entirely commendable and necessary end, the reward to soldiers who had risked their lives in defense of their country...