Word: prize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Same Old Faces. On the pro circuit things hadn't changed much since 1946. Most of the men who had dominated tournament play when Nelson left were still on top. At the end of the winter circuit, dapper Lloyd Mangrum, 34, led the pack in prize money (with $9,707); close on his heels in second place (with $9,110) was Sam Snead, 36, the country boy from the Allegheny Mountains of Virginia...
...gift of the novelist-to let his characters live their own lives-but he sacrifices too much of it for the sake of his propaganda point. This apparently had less weight than the book's solid merits with Doubleday & Co., which has been awarding the George Washington Carver prize since 1945, for "outstanding writing by or about American Negroes." The current award has gone to Bucklin Moon...
...made the bestseller grade with Northwest Passage. Thinking back over the long upgrade, Roberts peppers his book with envious cracks about other people's bestsellers and jabs at his literary betters, including Sinclair Lewis, William Faulkner and George Santayana. Once, peeved because he never got the Pulitzer Prize, he teed off on the selection committee in an ill-tempered article for the Satevepost, took solace from his No. 1 position in a poll of reviewers who thought Northwest Passage deserved the prize in 1938. He decided never again to let a book of his be submitted for the award...
Theodore I. Anderson '51 led a pack of almost 30 pedallers yesterday to win the Wellesley bike race and first prize of a Schwinn bicycle. A strong headwind slowed down all contenders, and Anderson's time of 40 minutes was well above the record of 28 1/2 minutes...
...prize was founded by the Class of 1888 and is given each year for the best poem submitted to a committee of the Department of English...