Word: prix
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Awarded. To novelist Willa Gather, the first Prix Femina Americain for her Shadows on the Rock...
...service) and the Silver Star medal; Radiologist Leon Menville, the gold medal of the Radiological Society of North America for applying Roentgen ray examination to the lymphatic system in cancer work; Nobel Prizeman Prince Louis de Broglie, the 100,000-franc ($3,900) Prince of Monaco grand prix of the French Academy of Sciences, for work in theoretical physics...
...love stories make a hero of the disgruntled suitor; few authors would dare try. Jean Fayard, son and employe of a Paris publisher, flirted with the idea but did not let his flirtation go too far. As a result, his "true love story" won the coveted Prix Goncourt (1931) over such competitors as Saint Saturnin and Night Flight (TIME...
...Forest City Stock Farm. Three races he won at the Chicago World's Fair, when he was 16, caused the Grand Duke Nicholas to invite him to Russia. For eleven years Will Caton drove Tsar Nicholas' trotters, won the Moscow Derby eight times and the Grand Prix at Paris in 1902. He set a record by driving one of the Tsar's horses, Trostee, over a mile of ice in 2:08 at Moscow. In 1912 he signed a contract with Vladmir Lezhneff, a Russian sportsman who paid him 10,000 roubles a year...
...turns over & over in his bed before getting to sleep." Finally the first volume was published by Grasset at Proust's expense. Critics, except for a few, hardly knew what to say about it. could not make up their minds until the second volume won the Prix Goncourt. From that day on. Proust's reputation, like his ponderous book, slowly gathered strength...