Word: awarded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George H. Whipple of Rochester, N. Y., will also share in the award, as may Dr. Murphy, who assisted Dr. Minot, although it is rare to have the $50,000 reward split more than two ways. Dr. Whipple was experimenting with anemia in animals at the same time Dr. Minot was pioneering with anemia among human beings...
...candidate from each is nominated for the Harvard Prize Scholarship; by the headmaster in "recognition of scholastic attainment and intellectual promise". The amount of the award in each case varies in accordance with the financial need of the particular student. If there is no financial need, the student receives only a nominal sum as a prize. If he requires assistance, the stipend is increased accordingly...
...plays. He is often called the best selling U. S. author in Europe. The U. S. S. R. alone has bought some 3,000,000 copies of Sinclairiana. Indeed, Upton Sinclair still believes that a befuddled Nobel Prize Committee had him in mind when it gave the 1930 literature award to onetime Furnaceman Sinclair Lewis...
...first award of the Association's merit prize will be made Saturday evening to Leslie C. Peltier, of Delphos, O., one of the most distinguished amateur astronomers in the world--the discoverer of comets and of a nova. Mr. Peltier is known as the outstanding observer of variable stars in America. He is about 30 years old, is employed by a garage in Delphos, and has never been to college...
...award of the following fellowships and prizes was also announced...