Word: prize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...portents Indicated that India considered that the battle for Kashmir had been won-and that India intended to keep the prize...
...Prayer to Allah. Different answers came from every streetcorner and every newspaper in all the world's cities. Some people predicted inevitable peace. In Germany's new capital city of Bonn, Professor Otto Hahn, one of the discoverers of nuclear fission, who won a Nobel prize in chemistry in 1944, argued agreeably: "If both the United States and Russia have it, there will...
...runs through 1951, Wald gets some comfort from recognition. He flirts occasionally with another studio to learn how much he is really worth, and does not object to pressagents trumpeting his praises. Recently, when Jack Warner ordered a publicity blackout on Wald, ostensibly to cut down demands on his prize producer's valuable time, Wald put up a fight and got the order reversed...
...Berle, who seemed more popular than presidents or prize fights, apparently was taking no chances on losing any viewers, even to Uptown Jubilee. Duke Ellington was a guest on his opening show. Announced for the second: Dodger Jackie Robinson and Dancer Bill Robinson...
Died. August Krogh, 74, Danish-born scientist, winner of the 1920 Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology (he discovered the regulation of the motor mechanism of capillaries, took motion pictures of blood cells flowing through the capillaries of living tissue); of cancer; in Copenhagen...