Word: nobeled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another war will wipe everybody off the face of the earth," mused Nobel Physicist Arthur H. Compton, with scientific caution. "That's pretty extreme. And it won't destroy civilization -there'll be some pieces left. But it will be an enormous setback. We'll have to start all over, from 'way back...
...Nobel and Nine Secretaries. He kept nine secretaries busy, dictating his 3,500 articles, speeches and books, campaigning for repeal of prohibition, against the child-labor amendment, for the League of Nations and the Republican Party. For his plodding conservatism, leftists were apt to regard him as a kind of American Blimp. His memberships and honors took up four times as much space in Who's Who as Franklin Roosevelt's. In 1931, for his work as president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Butler shared a Nobel prize with Jane Addams...
...François Mauriac acquainted U.S. readers with the painful penetration and classic structural quality of this eminent Catholic writer. The first two novels of Jean Paul Sartre's trilogy on France before World War II were studies in demoralization. André Gide reached All Hallows with the Nobel Prize and U.S. publication of the first volume of his Journals...
Henry J. Cadbury, Hollis Professor of Divinity and chairman of the American Friends Committee, arrived in Oslo, Norway, last night to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for 1947 on behalf of his committee...
Married. Arthur Alan Compton, 29, U.S. State Department representative on UNESCO's staff, son of Nobel Physicist Arthur Holly Compton; and Nathalie Xenie Felser, 28, daughter of Parisian Banker Emanuel L. Felser; in Mexico City...