Word: nobelity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most of them will be on one subject, British army life, for that is what publishers seem to crave today. Eleven book concerns in eleven different countries have just awarded a $15,000 prize for a novel on this theme by Major Henriques of His Majesty's Territorials. Now Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners must take a back seat while the doughty Major assumes his place in the forefront of contemporary letters...
...Stockholm last week the Nobel Prize award committee announced prizes in Physiology & Medicine for 1938 (deferred from last year) and for 1939. The physiologist honored for 1938 was Professor Corneille Heymans of Belgium, who showed that breathing is affected by chemical changes and pressure variations in the blood acting through nerve impulses. These discoveries have been of great value in treating respiratory disorders...
...prize was ticketed for Professor Gerhard Domagk of Germany, who first showed the efficacy of prontosil (forerunner of the miracle-drug sulfanilamide) in treating streptococcal infections. The Nobel committee thus serenely ignored Adolf Hitler's ban on Nobel Prizes for Germans, wrathfully decreed by the Führer after the 1935 Peace Prize was awarded to tuberculous Pacifist Carl von Ossietsky, whom the Nazis had under heel in a concentration camp. Last week Professor Domagk discreetly referred to his Government the question of what to do about his award, murmured: "Even if I don't receive the money...
STOCKHOLM--The 1939 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine was awarded today to a German Professor, Gerhard Domack, in disregard of a decree by Chancellor Adolf Hitler forbidding Germans to accept any of the Nobel awards...
...Paul last week Mrs. Frank Kellogg, relict of Calvin Coolidge's Secretary of State, Nobel Peace Prize winner and Ambassador to Great Britain, talked like a loyal wife. Referring to her husband's belief that "the world had at last reached a stage of civilized thought which ... abhorred armed conflict," she asked: "How can it be otherwise than that enduring peace will at last-and shortly-triumph...