Word: rewardingly
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...little more than a week after the robbery, the plot thickened considerably when a mysterious character got in touch with Paris-Journal, a newspaper that was offering a reward for information about the crime. Soon the man showed up at the newspaper's offices with a small statue, one of several that he claimed to have stolen four years earlier from the Louvre. The anonymous thief turned out to be a bisexual con man named Honoré Joseph Géry Pieret. He had once served as "secretary," and perhaps other roles, for Guillaume Apollinaire, the poet and art-world polemicist...
...Planilla,” and netting 100 points for Mass. Hall in addition to $100 for herself. Alt, Smith, and Maheshwary tied for second place and will split the second place prizes for themselves and their respective dorms. After offering high fives to her co-competitors and accepting her reward, Lao said of her victory, “I feel great, I used to do spelling bees in middle school so I was hoping that what I learned in middle school didn’t leave me. So I’m glad I was able to remember some...
...view of that cello, winding its way through the newsroom in a mail cart to be deposited in front of Lopez with a note that would do Paddington Bear justice, bequeathing it to Ayers. Downey's eyebrows arch in pleased surprise. He's earned his paycheck and a psychic reward. There are very few other professions that can claim to give you that...
...help asking questions: Why can none of these teams settle for a draw? Why do these competitions featuring only American participants contain the word “world” in their title? Why is America inclined—contrary to its capitalist ethos—to reward bottom-placed (read “failing”) teams with the first choice in the draft? Come to think of it, why is there a draft?The answers to these questions I do not intend to address here—not only because I’m still pondering them...
...Reward arrived with our Harvard acceptance letters, and salvation was granted in the opportunity to join a campus of fellow one-time social outcasts. But, if the palpability of students’ social abilities is less obvious, the unrelenting drive to work persists and automatically demands limited social interactions...