Word: prize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story, like so many others of the mid-20th Century, came to its end in a courtroom. But its beginnings were more auspicious. It began, more or less, on that day in 1926 when the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded jointly to French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand and German Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann. Putting aside the enmities of World War I, Briand and Stresemann had signed at Locarno a mutual security pact...
Champion. Ring Lardner's prize middleweight heel, played with a wallop by Kirk Douglas (TIME, April...
Champion. Ring Lardner's prize middleweight heel, played with a wallop by Kirk Douglas (TiME, April...
...week's prize for hotbox rhetoric went to Alexander Fell Whitney, 76-year-old president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Anybody who voted for the Senate's new Taft labor bill, cried he, "broke faith with democracy and followed in the goose step of Naziism...
...Trapps sang and in 1937 Soprano Lotte Lehmann heard them at it. She insisted that they enter choral competition at the Salzburg Festival that year. They took first prize, but never sang at Salzburg again; ardently Roman Catholic and ardently anti-Nazi, they left home just before Hitler seized Austria...