Word: awarded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University of Chicago will award ten tuition scholarships of $525 each this year to college graduates intending to become college teachers...
Every now and then a movie is created which is so vital, so heartwarming that it must be seen by every man, woman, and child in America. Such a movie usually wins the Academy Award. In the meantime, however, the film companies must keep on putting out other less inspired pictures to stay in the black. Under these circumstances Paramount produced "The Paleface," a drama of the Old West which concerns the famous Calamity Jane and a mousy dentist. All who go to see this film with an open (preferably blank) mind will probably think it somewhere between riotous...
Frank Lloyd Wright, venerable panjandrum of modern U.S. architecture, finally (at 79) got grudging recognition from the august American Institute of Architects (of which he is not a member): their 16th Gold Medal Award in 42 years. Apparently, it had not been unanimous. Blurted the Westchester (N.Y.) chapter: "His achievements do not entitle him to join the company of such men as McKim [Boston Public Library], Post [Wisconsin State Capitol], Bacon [Lincoln Memorial], Goodhue [Nebraska State Capitol], Cret [Washington's Federal Reserve Building], and Sullivan [Chicago's Stock Exchange...
Although she made her first movie 14 years ago, and has since done some skilled acting (Gone With the Wind, Hold Back the Dawn, To Each His Own-which won her the Academy Award in 1947), few people in or out of Hollywood know very much about Olivia de Havilland. "Livvie" has long been the subject of much amateur psychoanalysis among her friends and acquaintances...
Third prize of a standard radio-phonograph went to the Spee Club. Spee-men finished up the eight-week Philip Morris grind with a final spurt of 200 wrappers with game predictions to capture their $180 award...