Word: rewarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Italian engineer and a rugged French country maid. His father had a scheme to water the dried-up fountains of Aix. But he died in the midst of this first promising project and his wife and heir were legally deprived of financial reward. Up to Paris went young Zola, his imagination glittering with the romanticism of Alfred de Musset. He lived a Bohemian life, indolent, unspeakably shabby, a starveling writing silly verses. He took a harlot to live with him, thus ending his long virginity which was to be a jibe in later salons. He became a publisher's clerk...
...building up this weakest link in the system as it stands today are valuable, and Yale is to be congratulated on having instituted such a valuable endowment. It comes after a series of salary raises, and should help carry on the progress they have made towards bringing the tangible reward of knowledge in New Haven into closer relationship with the current scale for equally arduous occupations...
Physicist Arthur Holly Compton, 36, of Chicago, who has the dapper alertness of a business executive. He won the 1927 Nobel Prize for Physics (jointly with Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, 59, of Cambridge University). Professor Compton's reward was for measuring electro-magnetic waves...
...reward I captured was a solid term...
...give latitude to non-Dean's List men when they momentarily reach the mark does not imply a withdrawal of rank from those men who fall below the Third Group in November or April. High standing is too desirable and not to be encouraged by quick reward and too rare to have its perhaps momentary lapse incur a penalty...