Word: award
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Instead a painstaking search has been carried on by Her Majesty for some weeks, with a view to bestowing a large gold medal on Rumania's very best mother. Last week the 32-year-old mother of a bonny boy of seven received from Queen Marie the supreme award...
...Student Council devoted the rest of its attention yesterday to various questions which are left over from the football season. The Council voted in the first place to recommend that numerals be awarded to members of the Senior class football team in recognition of their playing both during the past season and during previous seasons. The Senior team lost the class championship to the Sophomores this year by one point in the official team ranking, but with their full strength on the field were rated the equals of the Sophomores. Although the Seniors had no legal claim to the award...
...with one from Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the Ware Prize, offered by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, it was announced yesterday by the School of Architecture. H. T. Anderson 2S.A. and R. G. Gulley 1S.A. were the Harvard winners and each received $25. The procedure in making this award in the past has been to give first and second prizes of $50 and $25 respectively, but, as the three best contributions were equally good, the judges, after much discussion, decided to split the prize money...
...terms he used were general. The question was submitted to the U. S. and in 1914 Chief Justice White rendered a decision favorable to Costa Rica. Panama protested. There was dispute and even gunfire as late as 1921, when President Harding insisted that Panama accept the White award. * The white potato (Battata) was "discovered" along with Incas Andes gold etc. etc. by 16th century Spaniards. The potato entered Spain, Italy, Belgium before its supposed home Ireland, whither it was taken in 1586 by colonists returning from Raleigh's venture in the Carolinas...
Messrs. Doubleday, Doran will exchange O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1928 for $2.50. Turning to page one, buyers will read...