Word: prize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prize exhibit of the display, however, was a live Soviet tank driver who drove in his 15-ton tank from the Leftist People's Army into the Rightist lines and surrendered. Obligingly the proletarian soldier demonstrated his death-dealing machine to an aristocratic audience which included German Ambassador Dr. Eberhard von Stohrer, Italian Ambassador Count Guido Viola di Campalto, Papal Nuncio Mgr. Gaetano Cicognani. Opening the exhibit was short, blond, blue-eyed General Count Francisco de Jordana, Rightist Spain's Foreign Minister and Vice Premier of the Franco Government, more & more looked upon as Rightist Spain...
...still teach folks a few golfing tricks. With a minimum of effort, he got results that would please many a top-flight white golfer: rounds of 68, 73, 72, 71- on a tough, hilly course he had never seen before. His 284 not only won the tournament and first prize of $200 but set a new record for the Negro championship-just three strokes higher than the all-time...
...Australia won the biennial series in 1934, again in 1936. This year the first two games were drawn, the third abandoned because of rain, the fourth taken by Australia. The mythical "Ashes," famed prize of Anglo-Australian cricket, were created by a monumental British joke: a facetious epitaph for English cricket, published in the London Sporting Times in 1882, after a visiting Australian team had trounced England at her own game...
...came to the "Grand" in a $20,000 private railroad car. Others came in trailers, camped behind the clubhouse. A doctor commuted from Cincinnati by plane. The week's 15 events offered $50,000 in prizes. In the Grand American Handicap, big prize event of the meet, there were no favorites, for a 14-year-old tyro, shooting from the 16-yd. line, had as good a chance to win as a top-flight marksman shooting from the 25-yd. line. Solidest tradition of the 39-year-old trapshooting classic is that an "unknown from nowhere" usually wins...
...Chartres it has inspired a literary masterpiece. But although the Abbey has long been a writers' and tourists' favorite, no one had thought to write about its guides. That oblique distinction has now been attained by Tides of Mont St.-Michel, whose author won the Goncourt Prize...