Word: rewards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them. Possibly 200 more had been located by dealers or collectors; the rest were lost. Last week the Winnipeg syndicate took up Dealer Bileski's offer, sold him 16 of the stamps for $16,000. For alert Mildred Mason, who first noticed the upside-down seaway, the initial reward was a right-side...
...University of Pennsylvania (enrollment: 16,000) last week found a more substantial reward for good teachers than a pat on the back. To each of 20 faculty members, for excellence in undergraduate teaching, went a check for $1,000, reportedly the first such bonus bestowed by a U.S. college or university...
...actually had half of that). Bertrand was perhaps the least self-seeking, but he lost status when Mme. Bertrand refused to become Napoleon's mistress. With or without the hint, Mme. de Montholon was a wily enough schemer to indulge the fallen emperor, and the Montholons got their reward: 2,000,000 francs in Napoleon's will...
...lands behind the Iron Curtain, membership in the Communist Party is meant to be a signal honor, a reward for extraordinary services on a tractor, special zeal on a lathe, or talent and diligence at street-corner rallies. But in Warsaw last week, the rulers of Communist Poland were grimly facing up to the fact that to all but a handful of their subjects party membership had come to be nothing but a chore. On a recent journey through the Polish countryside, a Western traveler found that in village after village party headquarters had vanished, closed up for lack...
...Magdalen and St. Lucy that he had it stolen from the church of Albinea, and it has never been found. In 1876, Gainsborough's portrait of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire vanished from the sales rooms of London's famed art dealers Agnew & Co., was returned for reward 25 years later by a onetime Chicago gambler. Even the Toronto Art Gallery has had its share of thefts. A small Rouault (The Surgeon) vanished from its walls in 1955 and is still missing. The same Rubens that is now at large was also stolen five years ago. That time...