Word: barretts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard may be surprised to find that a total of $5,180 is given, in varying amounts, to the successful competitors for the 32 prizes which the college awards each year. Though in the majority of cases the prizes are money, a few, such as the Deturs or the Barrett Wendell prizes, are in the form of books...
...Barrett Wendell Prize
...explains, "the term 'English' being considered clastic enough to cover both linguistic and literature courses. As "the successor of Ticknor, Longfellow and Lowell" Bliss Perry recalls an uncomfortable feeling that the public was getting the impression that Harvard was landing a bigger fish than it had actually caught. Barrett Wendell, who had complained about the abuse of Presidential power in making the appointment, was too honest to pretend to welcome Perry to Harvard. At their first meeting afterward Wendell launched into an attack on Byron's "Vision of Judgment", famous parody of Southey's culogy of King George Third...
There were only two moments at Interlachen when it looked as if Mrs. Vare might lose. One was in her semi-final match with 18-year-old Beatrice Barrett of Minneapolis whom she defeated 2 & 1. The other came the next day when she was playing a 17-year-old, freckled-faced tomboy named Patty Berg, whose father persuaded her to take up golf three years ago, hoping it would make her lose interest in playing football on a neighborhood boys' team. Four down when the match reached the 31st hole, Minneapolis' Berg had suddenly won two holes...
...surely passed judgment on the innovation. Partly, that was due to its remoteness from the public: its customers are steady and its products standard. A farmer may spread Arcadian nitrates on his fields; a townsman may drive his car over Tarvia roads or keep out the rain with Barrett roofing; a housewife may buy Polar moth balls. But the average indirect consumer never sees the aniline in his blue serge suit, the tanning alkalis in his oxfords, the caustic soda in his soap, the soda ash in his window panes. For Allied is primarily a purveyor of heavy chemicals...