Word: awarded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...read in the newspapers of the "Blue Ribbon" awarded the latest ocean liner to break the record for a transatlantic crossing. He knew of course, that this was just a figure of speech for there was no Blue Ribbon. Why not, thought Harold Hales, supply a real prize for transatlantic liners to contest for? It took 40 years to save up the money but last week, in the suburban London villa he calls Selahdale, he had a real $4,000 cup called the Hales Blue Ribbon Trophy, was ready to award it. Sighed he: "The only thing that really worried...
...Such an award speaks for itself. Last week the patriotic British "Soupstakes" promoters further indulged their sense of humor by twitting U. S. housewives who entered the competition but failed to place. Tongue in cheek, the Soupstakers held up to British ridicule Mrs. M. H. Houghlan of Broadus, Mont., disqualified because the chief ingredients of her vegetable soup are beef knuckles and heel of beef. Also calculated to put Britons into stitches was the revelation that an egg dumpling soup was entered in the vegetable classic by Mrs. S. H. Long, No. 403 Sunnyside Ave., Waterloo, Iowa...
Last week the copper industry got a good shove in the opposite direction at the hands of the U. S. Government when the Navy Department announced the award of a 750,000-lb. contract at 8½? per Ib., lowest price in 14 months, to Milhauser Trading Corp.(copper brokers), one of the loudest opponents of the code. Domestic fabricators took the cue, dropped prices of all copper products 1? per Ib. Copper for export sank to 7¼? against a top of 7½? the previous day and 8½? the preceding month...
NOVEMBER 23--Harvard declines Mellon scholarship as replacement of Hanfstaengl award...
Your account of the recent award of scholarships given by the American Academy in Rome [TIME, May 27] is even more disappointing than your report of the same event in previous years. You seem to imply that to Mr. Eugene Savage belongs most of the credit for the splendid record of the Yale School of Fine Arts during the past years. Mr. Savage, I believe, would be the first person to deny this. As Leffmgwell Professor of Painting his influence reaches only a small section of the Yale Art School. He has nothing to do with the instruction in architecture...