Word: prize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...First prize ($15,000) for 70-foot mosquitoes went to the Manhattan firm of Sparkman & Stephens, whose Partner Olin Stephens in 1931 skippered the 52-foot racing yawl Dorade across the Atlantic in 17 days, 2 hours 14 minutes, later was a codesigner of Harold Vanderbilt's Cup-winning Ranger. As a specialist in sailboats for rich men, famed young (30) Mr. Stephens left the designing of a motored mosquito to his expert helper, Gilbert Wyland, was modestly annoyed when Designer Wyland gave the credit to his boss. Another $15,000 for the best 54-footer...
...sang with the St. Louis Municipal Opera. Last season appendicitis kept her out. This season she sang in two Broadway flops, felt that her experience had been rounded out, tried again. Successful, she expects to start with roles like Musetta, Micaela, is confident she can make her $1,000 prize money go a long way because "I am rather a frugal fool...
Winners of the Coolidge prize which was augmented this year by the addition of the Lee Wade II speaking prize money, will be selected after the practice debate on April 24. Prized are $100 for first place and $50 for second place...
Next year the Lee Wade prize of $50 will be given to the Debating Council to be awarded to one of the best speakers in the annual H-Y-P debate. For this year the Corporation has voted to give the prize both to one of the winners in the speaking contest and to a high man in the Triangular Debate...
...research on the relation between vitamin A and the eye, George Wald, an instructor and tutor in Biology, has been awarded the annual $1000 Eli Lilly and Company Prize in Biological Chemistry, it was learned yesterday...