Word: rewarded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Teachers: "Much of the teaching problem will remain unsolved until teaching ability becomes a focus of reward, until those rare men are recognized who can develop skill in giving others the incentive to learn, explore, and discuss...
...parties must agree that there is an appalling lack of meat in the Dining Halls, and that there is little relief in sight. Therefore, anyone who can provide a palpable solution should receive some great reward, perhaps an honorary membership in the Student Council...
Perle is reaping her reward. She is one of the few people who call Mrs. Truman "Bess," often drops in for lunch at Blair House. At the Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner, she sat at the President's right hand with her famed diamond clips aglitter, next day proudly stood beside him in a receiving line for deserving Democrats. ("Did you notice us winking at each other? That's because several people called me Mrs. Truman.") She even made her first political speech, and the President told her it was wonderful...
Last week, Mary Bethune's plowing reaped a reward not even the late great Booker T. Washington had achieved. At Winter Park, Fla., she had been awarded an honorary degree (Doctor of Humanities) from Rollins College. It was the first time a Negro had ever been honored that way by a white college in the South...
...Keefe can catch up with him. But, preoccupied with Dennis' courtship of a suspect's daughter (Barbara Britton), they blithely overlook the fact that a local banker was an accessory to murder and that Sheriff William Bendix shut his eyes to the crime. The rather whimsical reward for all this tampering with justice: Dennis gets the girl...