Word: nobel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regardless of their opinions as to his abilities as an administrator will disagree. Awards for "meritorious service to democracy, public, welfare, liberal thought or peace through justice" are standards against which only the most narrowly prejudiced can take up arms. Technical scientists do not oppose the existence of the Nobel Literature Prize...
Largely on account of his work in this field of chemical research Professor Theodore W. Richards '86, Nobel prize winner in 1914 and Director of the Wolcott Gibbs Memorial Laboratory at the University, has been appointed a member of the international committee on elements, while Professor Gregory P. Baxter '96, formerly a pupil of Professor Richards and now an independent investigator at the University, has been chosen for the International committee on atomic weights...
...Freshman four-oared crews, 5 and 8, yesterday raced the Nobel and Greenough four-oar over the half-mile course on the Charles. The schoolboy boat got off to a better start, rowed a better-judged race, and finished stronger and a full length ahead of either of the 1924 fours, covering the course in 3 minutes and 27 1-4 seconds...
...Rabindranath Tagore, winner of the Nobel prize for literature in 1913, and well-known as an educator, philosopher and poet, delivered an address on "The Meeting of East and West" in the New Lecture Hall yesterday afternoon...
...delivered several lectures at the University in 1912, the hall was crowded to capacity on each occasion and many people who came to hear him speak could not be admitted. In 1913, almost immediately after the first books which he had written in English appeared, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, as the critics of Europe and America recognized that his works were masterpieces of style and expression...