Word: award
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Goebbels of the Reichskultur-kammer, apparently interpreting the Carnegie International jury's award of first prize to German Artist Karl Hofer as a deliberate insult* to the Third Reich, vented his bile on Artist Hofer by forbidding him to paint at all. Heretofore merely prevented from exhibiting in Germany, Artist Hofer may now be packed away to a concentration camp if some household spy catches him laying brush to canvas in his own studio...
...Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports of Harvard University has voted the award of Major H's to the members and manager of the Varsity soccer team which was undefeated through its last season and won the New England Intercollegiate Soccer League Championship. The award is a major black H with a crimson border to be worn on a white sweater...
...devotion to his teaching, he won the affection of several generations of Harvard students. His interests in general educational methods impelled him to sit on many faculty committees. His responsibility for the introduction of the laboratory procedure into secondary schools earned for him the American Association of Physics Teachers' award for the highest contribution made by a physics teacher...
...always played a big part in Nobel Prize selections. In politically-conscious Europe Pearl Buck is famed for The Good Earth, for her pungent, telling attacks on dictators, for her tributes to the common people of China. In a broadcast to Sweden, modest Pearl Buck said simply that the award should have gone to Theodore Dreiser...
...American Association of Physics Teachers last year voted to award their prize for the most notable contribution made to the field of physics by a teacher to Professor Hall...