Word: rewarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Professor Lowes has done this, it is only for the moment. In the next ten years the English Department will know a new burst of activity, a new striving for scholarship, a new set of names to become famous. And in this Professor Lowes will see a tangible reward for his labor and the most moving tribute a teacher can receive...
...story as how the heroine of Pygmalion acquired the poise of a duchess but for the fact that it is utterly implausible. A squat, fervent, irascible Transylvanian, ex-farmer, cavalry officer and economist. Producer Pascal's best previous contribution to cinema was Franz Lehar's Frederica. His reward for the ripple of applause which it aroused in 1932 was a succession of minor jobs producing shorts...
...Japanese have tried various unsuccessful methods to stamp out destruction of their rail lines. Chinese farmers were forced to inspect the tracks and report loose or missing rails-which they did, but often only after helping the guerrillas tear up and hide the rails. A $5 reward was offered by the Japanese for returned rails-those Chinese who took advantage of the deal were executed when they returned home. Japanese troops tried burning the nearest Chinese village when the rails were cut. Chinese destruction only increased...
...complexity of this day there was a challenge, in its very danger there was a thrill of reality, and in the vision it offered there lay the reward. For all these the Vagabond was grateful. And he was grateful for Harvard, too, because it fitted in and was fitting him . . . Perhaps he would have the chance someday to trace the steps of some pioneer, doing the job quietly, methodically, the way they taught him at Harvard, Perhaps someday he would even have some hens. Even more than for the present, Vag was grateful for the future...
...loving appreciation of its operating difficulties. It is more than play to them. The M. M. R. R. is operated too similarly to the real railroads to be a toy. Its very complexity and completeness makes it exciting and real to those men. There service and ability have their reward: the hardest worker is the head man, and a Boston and Albany switch engine hostler may "run" the M. M. R. R.'s crack express if he shows "the stuff...