Word: prize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...students will be blind dates for the fortunate boy and girl who wind up with them. And as if this were not enough, the prize also includes all expenses paid plus tickets to tomorrow's game...
...added spur was a four weeks' "Dress Yourself" contest. Salesmen got clothing prizes (ties, shirts, etc.) depending on what they sold, with the top prize a suit. At meetings once a week, salesmen could wear only what they had won. At the first meeting, some were barely decent. Last week. Joske's totted up results of the contest. In a month, $232,000 worth of Frigidaires had been sold-and 20 suits given out. Since the campaign started, Joske's has sold $750,000 worth, more than most big stores sell in a year...
When Hermann Hesse won the Nobel Prize in 1946, few U.S. readers had ever heard of him. Magister Ludi, his last and his greatest book, is not likely to make Hesse popular with them, but it will at least serve to give them an idea of what his dry, remote, ironic and highly individual writing amounts to. Hesse was born in Germany 72 years ago, wrote autobiographical novels and lyric poetry in his youth-he is considered one of the best German lyric poets since the age of Goethe -became a Swiss citizen during World War I in protest against...
They knew little about their quarry except that she was an assistant professor of history. But she sounded promising-she was a Wellesley alumna ('30) of a suitable age (38), and she had recently won a Pulitzer Prize for a scholarly biography entitled Forgotten First Citizen-John Bigelow* What the ladies saw that day was nonetheless a surprise...
...like talent scouts coming backstage, the trustees called. Besides her Wellesley background, her Pulitzer Prize and her ability to cope with a college class, it appeared that Margaret Clapp had other qualities important in a college prexy serenity and aplomb. "Head and shoulders above any of the other candidates," reported Weeks. The rest of the trustees agreed. They popped the question. Yes, said Miss Clapp, she would take...