Word: rewardingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...netlike material, shaped to go under the nose and extend well toward the ears, held flat and tight by elastic bands behind the ears. After applying, each side was lifted in turn, and the wet mustache combed into the flat spread-eagle shape [see cut] which was the reward all next day for the rather tortuous all-night care not to misplace the binder...
...popularity. In 1954 Capitol went out after Frank Sinatra, then dying on the vine, talked him into coming over, and launched the Sinatra revival. Since then it has made other "cold" artists real cool: Judy Garland, Benny Goodman, Guy Lombardo, Harry James, Fred Waring. Capitol's reward: 1955 sales soared 25% over 1954 to a record $21,308,633, and profits spiraled...
...thesis then is still a vital part of liberal education, and should remain central to any honors degree, the problem remains of rewarding the unusually intelligent student who has no desire to spend a good part of his senior year on a narrowly defined project. Seemingly, the reward of getting A's should be enough for those who do not wish to continue in the academic life, and if a grade transcript is not enough for the exceptional, a Phi Beta Kappa key would sufficiently represent to society one's undergraduate achievements. Honors in General Studies, merely as a reward...
...test one's mental agility. And they make a good game, in which one sees how well he can furnish a blue-book from the warehouse of a vacant mind. Even if one does know the material, hour exams permit little time for serious deliberation of a question. The reward goes to the snap-decision, not the really rational consideration...
...Sophia was not yet refined and spoke an incomprehensible Neapolitan dialect. She didn't even know how to walk. She had to be educated, taught to walk and not to talk. I redressed her from head to toe and civilized her!" What was Galateri's reward for playing Pygmalion? Muttered he: "She gave me a photograph of herself, signed 'To my great dressmaker...