Word: prize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Award of the annual Bowdoin prizes for dissertations in English, the oldest prize awards in Harvard to two graduate students and three undergraduates was announced yesterday...
...difference between James Aloysius Farley and Franklin Delano Roosevelt as politicians is precisely the difference between Jack Kearns and Jack Dempsey as prize-ring professionals. Without Manager Kearns to steer him, get him matches, plan his career, World's Champion Dempsey might have been just another pug. When Jim Farley crossed the continent to attend the Elks convention in Seattle eight years ago, Frank Roosevelt was just another Governor. When Jim Farley crossed again in 1936, it was to help his champion defend his title. When he started out once more last week in his non-rumpling alpaca traveling...
...last month Baltimore's Evening Sun delivered a fatherly lecture to Johns Hopkins University. The Hopkins had lately lost (mainly to richer institutions) many eminent men: Nobel Prize Physicist James Franck (to University of Chicago...
...loudest ovations in the history of 68-year-old Pimlico. For Challedon, foaled at Owner Brann's Glade Valley Farm 70 miles away, was the first Maryland-bred, Maryland-owned winner of Maryland's beloved Preakness since 1877. Rewarding his owner with $53,710, richest prize of the year for three-year-olds, Challedon became the leading money-winner among his contemporaries (foals of 1936). Johnstown has won $103,295. Challedon's total...
Kenneth T. Young '39, of Cambridge, was recommended to the Corporation for the first prize of $100, while Ray S. Cline '39, of Dunster House and Terre Haute, Indiana, was named for the second prize of $50. Their names will have to be submitted to the Corporation for acceptance before they receive their awards for winning the examination held April...