Word: awarded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...participated in all the games but that with Yale. Such a step is particularly necessary in those sports which do not permit of extensive last minute substitution; also, in the case of men who are kept from the final encounter by illness, greater latitude in making the award should be permitted. Such changes would be a step toward a saner system, and would not detract in the least from the popular appeal of the Yale rivalry...
...suit brought against Film Actress Claire Windsor by Marian Read in Los Angeles for alienating the affections of Broker Alfred C. Read Jr. (TIME, Sept. 25): decision by Superior Judge J. P. Sproul that the jury's award of $75,000 against Actress Windsor "was so grossly excessive and unreasonable as to raise the presumption of passion and prejudice." He ordered a new trial...
Naming three Nobel prizewinners in physics last week, the Swedish Academy of Science paid tribute to the ability of young men and the importance of small things. Oldest of the three prizemen is Dr. Erwin Schrodinger, 46, who shares this year's award with Dr. Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac. Dr. Dirac is only 31, as is Dr. Werner Heisenberg, to whom went the belated 1932 award.* All three have been busy prying into the unimaginably small interior of the atom...
...famed short story, "The Gentleman from San Francisco" and The Village, few U. S. readers had ever heard his name. When news of his election reached the U. S. last week, critics who knew Bunin's work thought him a better-than-average choice. Soviet sympathizers declared the award "political," wanted to know why, if the Nobel Committee had decided to honor a Russian, they had not picked Russia's No. 1 contemporary writer. Alexei Maximovich Pyeshkov (Maxim Gorki...
Albert Johnson Lynd, ocC also received an award...