Word: awarded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fought the law and P. S. C. singlehanded because, hating the huge utilities company, he had demanded that P. S. C. pay $150,000 for the privilege of stringing its wires over one corner of his tiny truck farm at Scotch Plains. Refusing a State condemnation commission's award of $800, he had served six months in jail for malicious mischief, defied an injunction ordering him to cease tampering with the wires, resisted repeated attempts to serve him with a warrant for contempt of court. But on the last of those attempts, last autumn, a party of deputy sheriffs...
Announcement of the award was made yesterday by John Stewart Bryant, president of the college. The event will take place in the Sir Christopher Wren Building on June 8, marking the end of the 243rd year of the college...
...page volume and made sound movies to show how the offending wisdom tooth can be quickly extracted without the usual danger of butchery. Once taken for a quack, so revolutionary was his discovery, he is now president of the American Dental Association, and owns the 1933 Newell Jenkins award for "outstanding contributions in dental science," for all of which Dr. Winter, likes wrestling, has been a persistent and wordy
...Eugene E. Oakes, instructor in Economics, has been awarded the $500 David A. Wells Prize for his thesis "Studies in Massachusetts Town Finance". The Wells Award is given annually for the best original thesis in the field of economics in a competition open to Seniors and to graduates of any department of not more than three years standing. As a condition of the award, the winning thesis is published in the Harvard Economic Series...
...letter asking for a gift. But the real point is that even if Hanfy did not realize the letter was a mistake, he was asked for one thing and he offered another. There is certainly material difference between support of the Tercentenary Fund and the prize scholarships, and an award which sends Harvard men to the birthplace of National Socialism under the wing of Hitler's piano player...