Word: prize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prize for the winners in this year's tournament will be waterproof playing cards, rather than the customary cups, as it was felt by sponsors of the tournament that playing cards make a more useful and practical prize...
When he hit on his bathroom solution of Fermat's equation, Krieger at once cabled to Göttingen asking whether the 100,000-mark prize was still there. Back came the answer: "Preis besteht noch" (Prize still stands). Krieger doubted, however, that Adolf Hitler would allow the money to leave Germany, especially since the claimant was conspicuously non-Aryan. A matter which he apparently overlooked was that the prize is offered for proof of the theorem, whereas his solution, if valid, would constitute disproof...
...Mark Time-Make Time, Use the Lincoln Tunnel." This was the prize-winning slogan selected last week by the Port of New York Authority to advertise its newest tunnel. Meanwhile Travelers Insurance Co. was doing a little advertising of its own. Its 38-page booklet, addressed to those who wish to "make time," was grimly titled "Death Begins at 40." The title referred to the fact that automobile accidents which happen at speeds over 40 m.p.h. are more than twice as likely to be fatal as accidents that happen below that speed. Behind the booklet is last year...
...will be able to write all the liberal, pro-New Deal pieces he wants, will find his work highly ballyhooed. While his old boss. Managing Editor 0. K. Bovard of the Post-Dispatch, was reported submitting Anderson's scoop on the Chicago steel massacre newsreels for Pulitzer Prize consideration, jaunty Crusader Anderson cracked: "Messrs. Pulitzer* and Bovard think of me as a lemon out of which they squeezed all the juice. We'll see about that...
...Joseph Pulitzer, son of the late Prize-founding Joseph Pulitzer, is publisher of the Post Dispatch...