Word: prize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...field of concentration is History and Literature, and in his Sophomore year he won the Barrett Wendell Prize, which goes to the Sophomore in that field who has made the most notable progress during the year. He is on the Editorial Board of the Advocate and is a member of the Student Union...
Moore entered Harvard College from Clayton High School, Missouri. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and last year he won the History and Literature Prize, which goes to the most promising Junior concentrating in that field. He was President of the Union Debating Society in his Freshman year and has been a member of the Debating Council for three years...
...sack suit and felt hat the President went to a white-tie horse show at Fort Myer to see Eleanor Roosevelt ride a chestnut gelding called Badger, in the Useful Park or Road Hack Class. Mrs. Roosevelt survived eliminations but by prearrangement received no prize, only flowers...
...Comes Back (Warner Bros.). Sock for sock, the prize ring cannot compare with its cinema counterpart for fury, excitement, sustained pace; this, in spite of the fact that few actors are natural sockers. Newest and most natural of the cinema sockers is rangy, 190-pound, six-footer Wayne Morris. Socker Morris, turning 24 this week, lashes out with the unrepressed indignation of a small boy fighting over a marble game. And he really knows something about boxing. In the course of training for his Warner Bros. career, he has K.O.'d a whole row of professional roughnecks...
What alarmed Parliament were such statistics as these, widely circulated in the British press: From 1934 to 1937 the turnover from football pools rose from ?10,000,000 to ?40,000,000. Mathematical odds against the correct forecast (first prize) are estimated as high as 14,000,000-to-1. Still, there is always that lucky penny that won ?19,000, the sixpence that brought ?30,780. A pool promoter's net profit may run up to ?2,000,000 a season...