Word: accessit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every prize-winner there is a proxinie accessit (he came very near). Jn this case the prize-winner (of Harper's $10.000 contest : TIME, Aug. 3 i » was Robert Raynold's lirothers in the Vest; proxinie accessit was Author Davis' The Opening oj a Door. When you have read them both you may ponder the discrimination of judges: if you are wise, you will throw no stones. The Opening of a Door is an ex-i raordinarily good first novel, but any committee might be pardoned for deciding that its subject, manner, authorship had too Julian...
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