Word: prize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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MacLeish, on the Harvard staff this year for the first time, is the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning poem "Conquistador," and of "New Found Land," "Frescoes for Mr. Rockefeller's City," "Union Pacific,--a Ballet," "Panic," and the two radio plays "Fall of the City" and "Air Raid...
...closest friends did not know where he lived. The Conquerors was followed by a mediocre adventure story laid in Indo-China, The Royal Way. In 1933 his wife, who translates books from German into French, bore him a daughter, Florence. When Man's Fate won the Goncourt Prize the same year, Malraux's popular success was assured. In the U. S. and England a good part of its popularity came from its superb translation, by University of California Professor Haakon Chevalier, who captured the distinctive quality of Malraux's prose, made it in English...
...prospering Greenlaw farm were models for miles around. Last week the Future Farmers of America, of which Hunter is one of 173,000 members, convened in Kansas City, Mo. under the auspices of the Kansas City Star to confer their coveted honor of Star Farmer, which carries a $500 prize. "I sure would like to win that," said Hunter, who did not think he would because last year's Star Farmer, Robert Lee Bristow, now assistant manager of a farmer's cooperative, hailed from a nearby Virginia county. Ignoring that circumstance, the judges decided on Hunter...
...those who considered verse too archaic a form to be nozzled through an audio tube, Pulitzer-Prize Poet MacLeish pointed out that since radio engages only the ear, "verse has no visual presence to compete with. . . . The ear is already half poet." Poet MacLeish then proceeded to give the ears of the U. S. radio audience 30 minutes of the finest verbal music of its time...
William B. Cavin, Jr. 2G.S.D. won the third prize of $5 with a more conventional design...