Word: nobel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From Stockholm the following sentence flashed along the cables of the world: "The Board of Directors of the Nobel Fund announces that, for the first time since the initial awards 24 years ago, all five of the annual Nobel Prizes will be withheld for the current year...
...realms of Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature and Peace the year has brought no overwhelming and secure accomplishment. Meanwhile many a semiliterate inquired, "Why do them Swedes spell 'noble' 'n-o-b-e-l'?"; and many a citizen of ripe culture wondered just who Alfred Bernhard Nobel really was, and exactly how he had occupied himself in amassing the thirty million Swedish kroner ($9,000,000) with which he endowed the Nobel Foundation...
Quoth indulgent Swedes, tabloidizing Mr. Nobel for U. S. consumption: "He came of a family of inventors and princes of finance. His father, Immanuel Nobel, invented the submarine mine. His brothers, Robert Hjalmar Nobel and Ludvig Immanuel Nobel, founded the naphtha industry at Baku, Russia, one of the most phenomenally successful enterprises of the 19th Century. He himself invented dynamite, and reaped fabulous tribute from the whole world for the secret. The entire family labored incessantly at the invention and manufacture of super-combustibles. So numerous were the explosions and fires which wrecked their laboratories that the Swedish Government forbade...
...Quarterback Hill Barclay, G. M., '27S 21 165 5.8 Back Roxbury Harvey, J. S., '28 20 190 5.11 Guard St. Mark's Failing, J., '27 21 167 6. Back Andover Cox, D. B., '28 19 184 6. Back Loomis Caldwell, B., '28 19 169 5.10 Back Cumbarland H. S. Nobel, L. M., '27 21 165 6.1 Back Kent Webster, W. A., '28S 22 189 6. Tackle Hotchkiss Lindley, D. A., '26 21 155 5.8 Back Hotchkiss Wallace, W. S. '26 22 185 5.11 Guard Taft Winecke, L. G., '26S 26 155 5.11 Back Andover Sanger...
...revolt against social and artistic conditions in a milito-capitalistic state. The uproar caused by his sententious eloquence paralleled Corneille's presentation of Le Cid in 17th Century Paris, and drew such attention that in 1905 Oxford hailed him as "Doctor" and in 1912 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. More recently he remarried and built a home amid the towering crags of Silesia...