Word: rewarded
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...government been so thoroughly housecleaned between midnight and dawn. But to Castro, flushed with victory, the exodus was a bitter cheat. Arriving in Santiago, he took the big (5,000-man) Moncada fortress from the surrendering army without firing a shot, declared Santiago the provisional capital of Cuba as reward for its support. In Las Villas, ruthless, Red-loving Che Guevara executed the last Batista holdouts...
...weaknesses. It is conceivable that a student will do none of the course reading until he finds out what the paper topic is and then read only what he considers necessary for the paper. Thus the methodical, diligent student would be penalized and the crafty fraud unjustly rewarded. But professors who make sure that the topics they assign are broad enough to require completion of a majority of the required reading can insure that academic virtue is given its own reward. Surely the scope afforded in a paper topic will represent a more satisfactory test of a student's work...
...crusader or a general. He fits in any of a million executive, technical, or professional slots for which a college degree is pre-requisite. The leader trained in the college is not just a decision maker; he is anyone who sits on top of a prestige pyramid as reward for taking intellectual, social, or economic responsibility...
Rivers' reward-like Gruening's, Egan's and Bartlett's-will come within a few-weeks, when President Eisenhower officially declares Alaska the 49th state and each new official settles down at his new desk, ready for business...
Rogers, who vehemently opposes the Cornell method of learning languages (i.e. machines, separation from culture), says that "We must reward the younger men. They must have an in- terest in the country whose language they are teaching." When these men move on to higher levels, Rogers advocates a system of rotation, whereby every faculty member, regardless of rank, will be required to teach an elementary course for a specific amount of time. The quality of teaching would then be raised and the teaching fellows would not be mired in the lower levels...