Word: nobel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paris, Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize* (TIME, Dec. 20), handed the proposal, which he had personally drafted to the U. S. Ambassador. In the usual course of events Ambassador Myron Timothy Herrick would simply have sent this communication on through ordinary channels to U. S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg. He did not do so. Instead, Mr. Herrick made a gesture worthy of France and the U. S. He ordered his bags packed, took the so vital document into his personal care, and embarked on the maiden voyage of the just completed flagship...
Watch Mr. Warner when the train leaves the station. He moves unobtrusively through his car?it may be the French Lake, Red Ridge, William Beaumont, Lake Drain, Alfred Nobel, Point Case, Christopher Wren, Glen Manor, Louis Pasteur, Cyrus Field, Edmund Halley?or any of 76 other names?doing small things for large people and quietly watching them, studying them, children and greybeards, ladies and gentlemen, to size them up in one of two Pullman-porters' categories...
Author Hamsun wrote the tale before he had reached the stature that put a Nobel Prize (1920) in his grasp for Growth of the Soil. He had, however, the same instinct for completeness, totality; the same slow scrutiny which, if you wait long enough, turns out to the vast drollery of a cosmic unbeliever...
...theatre. For hours, in impeccable evening dress, he tried to measure infinitesimal electrons on oil droplets less than one-thousandth of an inch in diameter, checked his results many a time. At last he isolated the ion, studied its ways and habits. For this he received the Nobel Prize (TIME...
...world for two years and shall probably be all over the place unless stopped and made to write another book. Sometimes I wish I was just a plain, ordinary newspaper man again.'" George Bernard Shaw: "To the Anglo-Swedish Literary Foundation, which I established with the $35,000 Nobel Prize for Liberature awarded me for 1925 (TIME, Nov. 22, Nov. 29) I last week gave the first assignment: To translate all the works of August Strindberg, satirical, gloomy, thrice-married, woman-hating Swedish essayist, fictionist and dramatist. Author Strindberg, (1849-1912) is famed for his bitter efforts to counteract...