Word: prize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Print collectors prize the strange tropical prints of Paul Gauguin so highly that the general public gets only fugitive glimpses of them. Last week the recently renovated Brooklyn Museum contributed something new to understanding of the artist when it opened the first complete exhibition of Gauguin's graphic art, in a handsome show that gave added proof that the great Frenchman was one of the most fertile innovators of his pathbreaking time...
...Carnegie International show in Pittsburgh last autumn, visitors in the German room stopped before an arresting painting that Critic Edward Alden Jewell described as "beautiful, breathless, haunted and haunting." It was Along the Shore, by a 33-year-old Munich artist named Edgar Ende, and although it won no prize, many a visitor wondered about the work of the artist who created its sombre vision of gloomy sky and water, its statuelike group of horses...
Caspar W. Weinberger '38, of San Francisco, Calif., has been awarded the Endicott Peabody Saltonstall Prize given annually to a senior entering the Harvard Law School, it was announced today...
...prize, of $250, was established in memory of Endicott Peabody Salonstall '94, and is awarded to that Senior in Harvard College proposing to enter the Harvard Law School who shall be considered to be best fitted...
Disappointment. Dr. Wood likes the theatre (he once was active in amateur theatricals), music and social functions, makes a special effort to shine when ladies are present. In science, the great disappointment of his life has been that he has not received the Nobel Prize. His colleagues say that this is because Wood's mind, brilliantly productive in the early stages of an experiment, tends to grow bored and look for something else when the research reaches a stage where long routine labor is in prospect. He once, it is now known, had the Raman Effect** in his apparatus...