Word: prize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to arrangements which had been made before the contest Abdian will receive the entire prize of $250 offered by the Times besides a New York Times medal. Honorable mention was given to Harry Herbert Kleinman '30, of Hartford, Connecticut, and to Robert Keen Lamb ocC, of Washington...
Abdian, who last year won second place in the Baldwin Municipal Government Contest, will have his paper submitted to the Executive Board and entered it a national contest where it will be judged along with the winning papers in 19 other colleges. A prize of $500 will be awarded the winner of this second test. C. E. Wyzanski '27 won this contest in 1926. Last year's Harvard contest was won by T. A. McGovern '29, who was just recently appointed Rhodes Scholar at large for the country...
Thirty-two prospective orators enrolled in the competition for the Lee Wade and Boylston Prize Speaking Contest before registration closed at 5 o'clock yesterday in Holden Chapel...
President Washington picked the site "upon a rising ground, affording a fine water prospect, with a view of the Capitol." James Hoban, an Irish architect residing in Charleston, S. C., won a $500 prize competition for the plans by copying the ducal home of Leinster near Dublin. Much of his design was lopped away for economy's sake. President Washington laid the cornerstone without ceremony...
That incomparably prolific and reliable writer of detective stories, J. F. Fletcher, publishes four stories simultaneously, all highly readable: The Ransom for London (Dial, $2) is scientific crockery on the grand scale?death comes mysteriously to the Prime Minister's prize bulls and to a party of 19 toffs, before the Deadly Three are scotched without their ransom. The House in Tuesday Market (Knopf, $2) has for clues three cigars and a scrap of pink paper, but psychic waves, deadly chemicals, and amateur theatricals find them sufficient. The Secret of Secrets (Clode, $2) is a purely scientific invention...