Word: alken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...living out his days in a Washington, D.C. insane asylum (if he ever recovers, he will be tried for treason), won the Bollingen Prize of $1,000 for The Pisan Cantos (TIME, Oct. 25), "the highest achievement of American poetry" in 1948. The election committee, which includes Conrad Alken, W. H. Auden, T. S. Eliot, Robert Lowell and Katherine Anne Porter, "aware that objections may be made," explained their choice: "To permit other considerations than that of poetic achievement to sway the decision, would destroy the significance of the award, and would, in principle, deny the validity of that objective...
Several well-known writers, including Alken and Wallace Stevens plus the efforts of less distinguished figures and students will characterize the Spring de-put of the renovated Wake, Later on, an issue will publish French literary talent and on the side, about English novels...
Training those men is the aim of the department's top-notch scientists and engineers, such as Chaffee, Alken, Pierce, Mimno, and Berry, and the members of the Physics faculty which alternates with ES&AP in giving the courses common to both fields. The curriculum covers the whole range of engineering sciences, and covers it well, but ten full courses, eight and a half of them prescribed, must be taken within the department...
...medium distances are also fairly strong with Tim Coggeshall and Paul Alken running in the 600 and Charlie Eberhard and Alan Pifer competing in the 300. In general, it seems that as the distances grow shorter, the Yardlings' ability also seems to fizzle, with the result that the dashes are unreliable and Exeter proved that the team must depend on the distances...