Word: rewarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Subscriber Anders a worthy reward for his originality (if the idea is original) but far be it from my means to render such reward. A C. to C. Reader...
There are two underlying causes of this decrease in interest. The most important is that men are beginning to feel the reward is not worth the effort, and of as importance, that the reward means very little more than a title in the long run. Connecting this decrease in extra curricular work and the increased number of men graduating with scholastic honors the general trend becomes obvious...
...recipients represents one of the accomplishments toward which the University tries to direct its students. The honorary degree is the discriminating praise of a wise and impartial judge. It must be used not simply as further honor for men who have already won fame, but as the reward of greatness in the world's most honorable activities...
Writing of choosing the new Cabinet in Forward, British Labor weekly, Ramsay MacDonald said: "Then will come the unhappy days when for the merit I should like to reward I can find no places vacant, for all those I can fit in I cannot always find the appropriate place. May I be judged sympathetically...
Gratification came last week to Professor P. I. Preobrajenski, famed Russian geologist. For last week near Perm in the Ural Mountains (the mountain chain which divides European from Asiatic Russia) Professor Preobrajenski discovered oil. Thereupon the Soviet Supreme Economic Council bestowed upon him a reward (a "gratification") of 10,000 rubles (approximately $5,000). The Professor was "gratified" rather than "paid" because of the prevailing theory that services to the Russian state are recompensed by promotion and power rather than by so capitalistic an invention as capital...