Word: rewards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, for their obscure work in cryptic processes of vast practical importance to medicine, Biochemists Lipmann (54) and Krebs (53) won fame and rich reward. They were picked to receive the 1953 Nobel Prize for medicine and physiology and share...
Such skills have brought him due reward. In the 4½ years since he rode his first winner, Texas-born Willie, who now prefers California, has booted home 1,571 winners, won more than $5,000,000 in purses. At a jockey's standard 10%, he can well afford his Cadillac, his de luxe trailer, where his wife does the housekeeping when Willie is on the road, and his small apartment in Arcadia. Indeed, he owns the apartment house...
Kennel Show. In Kansas City, Mo., after the Star mistakenly published his reward offer of $1,500 (instead of $15) for the return of his pet pointer Queenie, William C. Boosman was compelled to inspect some 500 dogs of all descriptions, finally in desperation rushed out and found Queenie himself...
With its foul barracks language, its uninhibited love scenes and its overall air of don't give a damn, The Blue Hussars is sure to repel a lot of readers. What it offers as a reward is Author Nimier's talent for keeping people and action alive...
...rubbed their hands. Rain-heavy clouds scudded down from the Apennines and broke into a pelting downpour. No speech was possible at the ceremony; after a hasty unveiling, the cardinal gathered his sopping robes around him and made a dash for the rectory. But Don Giuseppe had his reward. Through the streaming rain and into the church for Mass, then out again into the drenched square, came almost 800 men. women and children-the biggest congregation the priest had ever seen in Gaggio di Piano...