Word: prize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...winning business houses, furthermore, are not bound to acknowledge the designer of the prize advertisement, but may do so if they so desire. The basis on which the awards are made is not the illustration, but the entire make-up of the advertisement, for which the business house alone is responsible...
...intelligence of Harvard, personified by the ten best scholars of that institution, remains undefeated and uncontested for at least another year. The Harvard authorities, after many attempts, have been unable to find a single European or American college which desires to compete for the prize, having sent invitations to Cambridge, Yale, and Princeton...
...competitive prize in the field of literature, or in any one department of learning, the idea is wholly acceptable, but as a contest to ascertain the relative amounts of culture in one university and another, it is meaningless. It is to be hoped that the inactivity forced on the wits this season will not seriously impair their cerebral accomplishments so that we may look forward to another illuminating and amusing showdown in the future. Cornell...
...March 30, in Widener V, an examination will be held to determine the winner of the Ricardo Prize Scholarship, which has an annual income of $500. At that time, candidates will be called on to write extemporaneously, in the examination room, an essay on a topic chosen by themselves, from a list, not previously announced, in economics and political science...
Robert's letter was selected as the most original by the unanimous vote of the committee of judges, numbering among its members men prominent in the New England automobile industry, and he was mailed the prize, a check...