Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most important award in the field of architecture in the U. S., the Paris Prize of the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects, was won by Harry Kurt Bieg, 24, student of the Armour Institute of Technology, Chicago; S. R. Moore of Columbia University was second. The prize constitutes the holder the guest of the French Government for two and a half years at the École des Beaux Arts. The Architects' Association also provides $3,000 for living and traveling expenses during the period...
...resident of Baltimore, Simon, who is 58 years old, has long been prominent in the development of undersea navigation. In the early 90's he competed for the contract to build the first Government submarine. A rival won the award, but in 1897 Mr. Lake launched the Argonaut, first submersible to operate successfully in the open sea. Speaking on the development of the submarine, he once said : "My first trip was in the Argonaut down Chesapeake Bay. Night was coming on and we de cided to come to the surface...
There is no musician on the committee of award. Nevertheless this year's recipient of the decoration is a musician. He is Roland Hayes, Negro singer (TIME, Oct. 8), who has already garnered an amazing harvest of similar trinkets from foreign royal and notable personages and societies. His passionate rendition of his people's deeply felt "spirituals" has endeared him to Boston and Philadelphia symphony subscribers as well as to titled connoisseurs. He is now on concert tour in Europe...
Edward W. Bok, famed philanthropist: "Before sailing for Europe I told reporters that my $100,000 Peace Plan Award had had 'just the effect I wished.' Said I: 'It 'has awakened the people of America, by causing them to talk and think, both of which are the essential precursors of legislation...
...simple but impressive ceremony will take place in Wadsworth House at 1.30 o'clock today, when Lieutenant Colonel William S. Browning on behalf of the War Department, will award reserve commissions to nine members of the Class of 1924 and certificates of eligibility to eight other men. The new officers will be sworn in by Captain Ralph B. Perry...