Word: award
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will probably have been informed already that press reports led you into error in regard to the name of one of the recipients of a Nobel award [TIME, Dec. 20]. Dr. Svedberg's name is The and not, as the press assumed, Theodore. The error was very widespread, and I am writing this not as a complaint, but merely for your future information. It is not surprising that a name such as The should be assumed to be an abbreviation of Theodore...
Inspired by the Wilson Day celebrations, there arose within the nation an anonymous donor with $50,000. He (or she) presented it to the Woodrow Wilson Founda tion, which forthwith announced that it would award two prizes of $25,000 each to the man and woman (between the ages of 20 and 35) who submit the two best articles on: "What Woodrow Wilson Means to Me." The manuscripts must not contain more than 2,500 words and must be completed before...
...According to the League Covenant, Panama has undertaken to submit any disputes that are 'likely to lead to a rupture to arbitration or to an inquiry by the Council of the League and in no case to resort to war until a sufficient time has elapsed for an award to be rendered...
Professor Birkhoff won the honor for his Vice-Presidential address before the mathematics section of the Association, entitled "A Mathematical Critique of Some Physical Theories." With the announcement of the award, Professor Birkhoff sent a telegraphic explanation of his paper from Cambridge. Reviewing various physical theories, it pointed out some of the logical defects inherent in them. It stated...
...Fascist newsorgan II Tevere explained editorially last week why, of four recently awarded Nobel Peace Prizes, not one went to an Italian. Wrote the editor: "Fascismo wants justice for itself and others and has no ax to grind under false pretenses of peace. . . . [Referring to the Nobel award of Vice President Dawes]. Some nations unable to bear the burdens of victory fell prey to so-called economists who were nothing more than agents of international finance. The Dawes Plan aims to give the great War the judicial verdict of a bankruptcy trial. Where is there peace in all this...