Word: prize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Trustees of the prize money balked, last week pleaded with Judge Garnett to give the money to a milk station to supply breast milk. But Judge Garnett, who is also head of the local Masonic Widows & Orphans Home, decided that Needham's will must be obeyed to the last tittle...
Play. To Novelist Thornton Niven Wilder for Our Town (TIME, Feb. 14), his second Pulitzer Prize (first awarded for The Bridge of San Luis...
...most distinguished Washington Correspondence of the year New York Timesman Arthur Krock won his second Pulitzer Prize, $500. This one was for an exclusive interview in which President Roosevelt discussed his political philosophy...
Deep Sea Explorer William Beebe returned to Manhattan last week from a six-month, 2,000-mile expedition, sponsored by the New York Zoological Society, off the west coast of Central America. Of the 20,000 specimens of marine life taken, prize catch was a 1½-inch sailfish, which Ichthyologist Beebe thought might be "the first example of a young sailfish ever captured...
...Biblical story of Joseph fitted to a family of Southern landowners, bossed by a tyrannical widow whose eventual insanity gives the story its faint echo of Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury. A first novel by a 26-year-old Alabama coed, a Story magazine prize winner of last year...