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Word: rewards (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reward for able, patient handling of the marathon 1949 trial of the eleven Communist leaders, he appointed District Judge Harold R. Medina, 63, to the seat on the U.S. circuit court vacated by the famed Learned Hand, 79, who retired last fortnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Popular & Politic | 6/18/1951 | See Source »

...choices were sound by any standard, and politically shrewd. Murphy had resigned in a huff last year as an assistant U.S. district attorney, after he was passed over repeatedly when promotions were made; Republicans gibed that Truman did not want to reward the man who had put Alger Hiss in prison. Now, apparently, things were all patched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Popular & Politic | 6/18/1951 | See Source »

...barbaric races. What we fail to do is to realize that the experiences of these people are in a very real way similar to our own. Loyalty to a tribe of Samoan Indians exacts much the same sacrifice from the individual and returns to him much the same reward, only in different terms and units, as loyalty to an American college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Return of the Native | 6/18/1951 | See Source »

...Hsun was an illiterate Shantung peasant who was kicked, starved, beaten and left to freeze as a reward for his ignorance. But Wu had vision and persistence. He determined to beg money for free schools so that other poor children should not grow up as he did. He stood in the cold outside rich men's houses for hours waiting for a dropped coin. Once he knelt begging for three days outside an official's mansion. By 1896, his persistence had earned him enough to build three schools and make him a legend among Chinese schoolchildren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ex-Smasheroo | 6/11/1951 | See Source »

...proudly calls the "largest in the world." By selling everything from crayfish to shotgun shells-and everything as cheaply as possible-the Schwegmanns will take in close to $7,000,000 this year. "If I do a good job by keeping prices low," says John Schwegmann, "the public will reward me by buying more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Blow Against Price-Fixing | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

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