Word: prize
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that there are no solutions to the Fermat equation in certain cases, with values of n up to 7,000. But they did not prove that there are no solutions in all cases, with any value of n. At the Uni versity of Gottingen in 1907 the Wolfs-kehl prize of 100,000 marks was established, to reward anyone who could offer such proof...
...announced yesterday that the William Lowell Putnam Competition will give an examination in college mathematics on Saturday, April 16, with awards ranging from suitable medals to $500.00 in cash, and, in addition, a prize scholarship of $1000.00 to be awarded at Harvard University to one of the 5 leading contestants...
...altogether regrettable that Mr. Lake should have stooped to this form of retaliation, for if he should value one possession above all others, it is the esteem of generations of Harvard men. It is a prize hard to win, and all too easy to lose...
...want my dog," 10-year-old Stanley Hillyer, son of Robert S. Hillyer '17, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory and Pulitzer Prize poet, said through his tears yesterday...
...third kind, to accomplish something. With two thousand ships, mostly from Massachusetts, commissioned by Congress, the privateers were almost as essential to the American cause as the French ships at Yorktown. Out of them the Cabots and Eliots made their fortunes, since the owners kept half of all prize money and divided the rest among the captain and crew. Besides being a more lucrative business than fighting in the continental navy, privateering was safer, as the ships were faster and the sailors more efficient. It made British trade routes dangerous to traverse and brought home needed goods, yet for naval...