Word: awardsâ
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Dates: during 1929-1929
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...prize for 1928, recently awarded her, amounts this year to $42,000, some half of which she has already given to charitable maintenance of mentally deficient children. The Nobel Prize, established in 1896 by the will of Alfred Bernhard Nobel, the Swede who invented dynamite, consists of five annual awards???one of them for "idealistic literature." Notable recipients have been Kipling, Maeterlinck, Tagore, Knut Hamsun, Anatole France, Yeats, Shaw, Henri Bergson...
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