Word: awarded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very handsome. Thus for both artificial and natural reasons, Miss Bergner has great obstacles between herself and convincing her public that she can win and hold securely the affection of an immoral English musician. But she succeeds eminently, and explains clearly how she won an Academy award last year for this performance...
...Award of $8,175 in scholarships to thirty-nine freshmen, one sophomore, and one junior in Harvard College, was announced today...
...Prize Novel is chosen for "conspicuous merit and the underlying purpose of the award is to give prominence and success to a writer who has not hitherto found a wide audience." The author must be a citizen of the United States and not have published a novel in book form before January...
Most businesslike of U. S. peace groups is World Peaceways, whose guiding spirit is a dynamic, blue-eyed, brown-haired grandmother named Mrs. Estelle Miller Sternberger. In Manhattan last week Mrs. Sternberger received the Jewish Forum's Albert Einstein Peace Award for her pacifist achievements over two decades. Operating on an annual $100,000 budget. World Peaceways puts its faith in free advertising. In FORTUNE two years ago appeared the first of a series of World Peaceways full-page ads, written by Bruce Barton. Now prepared by Young & Rubicam, the campaign has reached the point, projected several years...
...speakers' table, looking like a rather grouchy old professor, sat famed oldtime Director David Wark ("The Old Master") Griffith, who climaxed the affairs at 1 a. m. by awarding the three top prizes. Last week was a big one for Direc tor Griffith, now 56, comparatively poor, and apparently through with the cinema. In Manhattan two audiences invited by the Museum of Modern Art to its series of cinema classics agreed that his Intolerance (which, contrary to legend that it cost $2,500,000, was made for $330,000 in 1916) compared favorably in many ways with modern efforts...