Word: prize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...election whispering campaign have at length become so loud that a mere "Hush!" from those called big-wigs is not enough to silence the speakers. Whatever that hard-gained Smith majority in the Bay State may have signified politically, it gave Governor Fuller, long the Republican Party's second prize publicity artist, a chance to step out to a sizeable lead over his once superior opponent, the vociferous Mr. Goodwin. Working on the sufficient assumption that an officer soon to be emeritus is safe from slings and arrows, the Governor has been chuckling pretty constantly and very, very sarcastically since...
...sailed around the Eiffel Tower, won a 100,000 franc prize. His experiments he describes in My Airships, published in 1904 by the Century Co. TIME will pay $5 for a copy of My Airships...
Last summer Clarence led Dick to the Marshall County Fair; Dick won the grand champion steer prize. Then Clarence led Dick to the Iowa State Fair at Des Moines; Dick won third prize. Both prizes brought Clarence $148 cash. Someone offered Clarence $1 a pound for Dick on the hoof. Clarence's father said sell; Clarence said no, he wanted to exhibit Dick at the International Live Stock Show at Chicago. And to Chicago last week he led Dick...
Hundreds of animals-cattle, swine, sheep, horses-were led into the crowded stockyard amphitheatre. Dick won the junior feeding contest, the prize for the best Hereford yearling, the grand prize for the best yearling, and $800 prize money for Clarence. Clarence was satisfied and wanted to go home to State Centre. But W. L. Blizzard of Stillwater, Okla., who awarded one of the prizes, told Clarence to enter Dick for the grand champion prize. Clarence consented, but would not lead Dick before Walter Biggar, who traveled from Dalbeattie, Scotland, to do the judging. Emma Goecke, 17, his big sister, took...
Another Marshall County boy, Keith Collins, 15, won the other best coveted prize of the live stock show, the carcass contest. The McCaulley Market of Mt. Kisco, N. Y., paid him $6.75 a pound ($4,873.50) for his yearling steer Benny, killed and dressed...