Word: rewarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accordance with the custom inaugurated last year, 500 copies of the essay will be printed in book form next September and put on sale at the Coop. The purpose of the publication is to serve as a reward for distinctive originality of thought and to bring before the attention of the outside world achievements of undergraduates in college...
What happened: Maxim Gorki was flying about half a mile high, carrying a crew of eleven, 36 passengers. Of the latter, nearly all were aviation shockworkers and their families, getting a "joyride" in reward for faithful service. On the ground, at Moscow Central Airdrome, 32 other shockworkers were waiting their turn to go up. Looking up, they saw the pilot of the tiny training plane stunting, in violation of orders. They saw him come out of a loop, crash head on into Maxim Gorki. With the little plane wedged in its wing between two motors, Maxim Gorki began falling...
Best solution was by Burwell Spurlok, 25, recently married son of a York, Neb. lawyer, Grinnell (Iowa) College A.B., onetime Harvard law student, onetime jobhunter, who expects to graduate next month from the University of Colorado College of Engineering. His reward: $100. A fact which the American Institute of Chemical Engineers found significant to the continuing success of U. S. industry: "Not only was the quality of winning solutions better than in previous years, but also there were this year more good solutions and few really poor ones...
...ducking in the water is the reward of the . The ritual, which today follows every race, is the say method of expressing the boat's for his bullying cries of the race...
Reproached by his streetwalker sweetheart (Margot Grahame) for his failure to support her, Gypo chances to see, in the window of a grimy travel agency, a poster advertising passage to America for ?10. This puts him in mind of another poster advertising ?20 reward for information leading to the capture of Frankie McPhillip (Wallace Ford), who belongs to the Sinn Fein organization from which Gypo has been dismissed for disobedience. Frankie is Gypo's best friend. The ?20 will take Gypo and his Katie out of Ireland. Gypo Nolan's piglike little eyes twinkle as he debates...