Word: rewardingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could be hauled to the surface. Scheme B was to tie fish lines to hard indigestible crusts of bread in the hope that Yusuf's duck would swallow line and crust, allow himself to be hauled to the surface. Yusuf's duck did not. Scheme C : a reward was offered to any citizen of Ihlamour who would allow himself to be lowered 50 feet down the well to grab Yusuf's duck with his bare hands. The first volunteer jammed ignominiously when the well bore unexpectedly narrowed 30 feet below the surface. The rope broke...
Representative Franklin William Fort of New Jersey, banker, insurer, orator, managed Mr. Hoover's pre-convention Eastern campaign. As a reward he was made secretary of the Republican National Committee. Last week he complained of the press of other affairs, resigned. As always in the case of such leave-takings, he, the White House and G. 0. P. Chairman Claudius Hart Huston had to deny rumors of a breach in the party, had to down stories that the President had jettisoned his political friend...
Allow me to congratulate you and your colleagues on this remarkable achievement. May it reward you richly for your brilliant efforts...
Finally Newman's day came. Pio Nono (Pius IX) died; his successor raised Newman, at 80, to the Cardinalate. Ten years later (1890) Death came for him, who had lived to see his wheel of fortune come full circle. A gentleman and a scholar, he had his reward...
...difficult at first for the undergraduate to place himself in one of the given categories, but with a little thought he will doubtless be able to squeeze in somewhere: and the resulting and novel sensation of normality will surely prove an ample reward...