Word: rewards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...latest Bob Hope picture, My Favorite Spy, in her modest living room. Subject of her winning letter: how her husband paid for his dentistry education by working in a glass factory. On Nov. 27, while searchlights sweep the grateful Ohio sky, Hope & Co. will give Mrs. Kuchinka her reward...
...clothes pretending to pick berries, but really sketching details of coastal fortifications. Later he would write a report in invisible ink, put it in the toolbox of his bike and leave it parked by a prearranged lamppost. Presently he would return and find another bike in its place. His reward, a bundle of money tied up in ribbons of Sweden's national blue and gold, would be lying in the second bike's toolbox...
...Mill's treatise "On Liberty," and it would perhaps be well if President Conant went back to that important but little read work and perused it once more. For here we have the best possible argument for a free market of ideas. This freedom, says Mill, is not a reward bestowed on those who follow the popular line of thought. It is not a privilege, to be awarded or taken away at will. It is a means, a method, whereby we can best reach truth about the ways of man and the universe. We cannot be certain of any fact...
Last week Eudeline went back to the presidential palace to receive his reward. On Eudeline's chest, President Vincent Auriol pinned the white-enamel-and-silver cross of a chevalier of the Legion of Honor, founded in 1802 by Napoleon Bonaparte to honor those who, "by their knowledge, their virtues, their talent," have upheld the principles of the French Republic. He will be entitled to wear the inconspicuous red lapel ribbon, and will find special seats reserved for him at parades and other functions-joining the democratic company of the 196,146 Frenchmen who also have the Legion...
...human race, that importing is undesirable, and that importers are liars, thieves and scoundrels taking food out of the mouths of American babies. Trading means both buying and selling, and without both there is no trade but merely gifts, grants, defaulted loans and the bitterness of misunderstanding as a reward for forced exports...