Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Atomic Energy Commission announced that the first award of its special $25,000 prize for "especially meritorious contributions" in nuclear physics will go to the University of Chicago's ailing Dr. Enrico Fermi, 54, Italian-born Nobel Prizewinner (1938), who presided over the first controlled nuclear chain reaction in 1942, thereby ushering in the Atomic...
...Star Is Born. Judy Garland makes a stunning comeback in a Technicolor musical version of 1937's Academy Award winner; with James Mason, Jack Carson (TIME...
...harrassing quest for money to support a scholar's project is often more tiring and time consuming than the actual research. Strangely enough, charitable foundations often award liberal grants to large groups, while rejecting support for small scale investigations. The unfortunate result is that many of the University's projects lag because modest sums of money are unavailable for basic equipment. According to the warning of the special Faculty Committee for the Behavioral Sciences, financial problems cripple the younger scholars particularly, for their work is usually not covered by large grants...
Senior end Bob Cochran of Natick, Mass. and Adams House became the second recipient of the Crocker Award for "perseverance and selflessness" on the football field by a vote of his teammates. The annual award in memory of Frederick G. Crocker '34 was given for the first time last year...
...conclusive proof that Enders and his staff at Childrens' Hospital in Boston have isolated--and for the first time grown in a laboratory--the elusive virus will be delayed until Enders returns from receiving his Nobel award in Stockholm in December. He, Dr. Thomas Weller, and Dr. Frederick C. Robbins, were awarded the $36,066 prize for their work in developing the polio vaccine...