Word: nobel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Knut Hamsun, as everyone knows, won the Nobel Prize for 1920 with his novel The Growth of the Soil. Peder Johannesen, farmer of Krakmo, Norway, never won any prizes. He was simply an ingenious and diligent hayseed who installed turbines and other complex apparatus by himself, who inspired a great novelist with the dignity of certain agricultural artisans. Novelist Hamsun derived Isak, the hero of his prize novel, from Peder. Peder died last week...
Eternal cycle. Among those whose minds were groping for the heart of being rather than its stomach was Robert Andrews Millikan, Nobel Prize winner, student of the cosmic ray (TIME, Nov. 23, 1925),† physicist of the California Institute of Technology. For years he has been in the vanguard of those attacking the foundations of the universe...
...Ruhr (which they had seized), and laid the German side of the foundations for the Dawes Plan. He was one of the Locarno Peace Pact signatories (TIME, Dec. 14, 1925); and he got Germany into the League (TIME, Sept. 13, 1926); and so he won the Nobel Peace Prize (TIME...
Telegram. From Baden Baden, famed spa, a sick man telegraphed to break the deadlock. His signature read simply "Stresemann." The great Foreign Minister and Nobel Peace Prize winner wired: "From the start I have regarded skeptically the attempt to establish a Ministry on the basis of a program approved beforehand by the various parties." He continued that, although it seemed "psychologically scarcely possible" for Herr Muller to forge a majority pledged to support him, he might carry on with a "Cabinet of Personages," that is to say, a government composed of distinguished party men whose parties would probably support them...
Secretary of State Kellogg, for whose broad white head the figurative laurel of the Nobel Peace Prize is sometimes predicted, last week continued his pacific statesmanship...