Word: nobel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William Butler Yeats, Irish poet: "On being notified that the 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature ( ?7,500) had been awarded to me, I was reported to have said: 'If it is small, we (my wife and I) will spend it and be rich. If it is large, we will invest it and be sub-stantial...
...because of what he can tell about the hazards of exploration twenty-five years ago, however, that Dr. Nansen will be interesting. After the war he worked tirelessly for the repatriation of war prisoners and refugees, and for his efforts was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Of late he has done great work in relieving Russia from the effects of famine. But although much is heard of the existence of starving refugees and of prisoners of all varieties and in all places, from Brussels to Bagdad, most people know little or nothing of what is really done for them...
...Fridtjof Nansen, noted arctic explorer and European relief worker, and winner of the Nobel peace prize this year, will speak on his personal experiences in the Living Room of the Union at 4 o'clock this afternoon. He will be introduced by President Lowell. Mr. Nansen will be in Boston only today and will speak in Symphony Hall this evening at 8 o'clock...
...Russia, Germany, and Czecho-Slavakia. Since the war he has been doing relief work in connection with the League of Nations. He has won for himself as great honors for relief work as for his polar expedition. It was for the relief work that he was awarded the Nobel prize...
...Nansen came very much to the world's attention this year when the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to him for him excellent service in Europe since...