Word: prize
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...this time the doubting Bloomsbury Hamlet had grown to a reduced Dante. He had also become (with Yeats dead) the greatest living poet. Last week the Swedish Academy clothed T. S. Eliot with recognition of that fact by awarding him the Nobel Prize for Literature "for his remarkable efforts as a trail-blazing pioneer of modern poetry...
...Prizewinners in physics and chemistry debated long and secretly. One of the leading candidates was a Swede, and the Swedish committee did not want to be accused of favoritism. Last week they announced their decision: Sweden's Professor Arne Tiselius, 46, of Uppsala University, got the $44,371.63* prize in chemistry...
British Atoms. The Nobel Prize for physics went to Britain's Professor Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, 50. Blackett, like Tiselius, is less a theoretician than a master of physical technique. In 1924, he took the first photograph of the disintegration of an atomic nucleus. In 1929, he developed an electronic tripping device which made cosmic rays take their own pictures...
...accurate as her letter is, I still have a quarrel with the assumption it rests on, which is that a criterion that applies "best" to the funny papers cannot at the same time be a good criterion for judging other forms of literature. Last spring the Dana Reed Prize for the best piece of writing to appear during the year in an undergraduate publication went to a story that ran in the Lampoon. The judges of the contest were the Curator of the Nicman Foundation, the editor of the Atlantic Monthly, and the editor of Harper...
...publication. Sports have received their due, and more, in the hands of staffers and student correspondents. Student troubles--such as the War Memorial have brought not only news but editorial support which reaches a readership conservatively set at over 25,000. The award this fall of the Robert Sibley Prize for the best alumni magazine in America brings only deserved recognition to the efforts of editor William Bentinck-Smith '37 and his co-workers...