Word: prize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Deans of the Law, Business and Medical schools will address their graduates at a series of luncheons before the meeting draws to an end Sunday night with Pulitzer prize winning novelist John P. Marquand and President Conant addressing the final meeting...
They are Jerome Patrick Gavin '50 of Adams House and Los Angeles, who won the undergraduate first prize of $500; Carl Ray Woodring 3G of Cambridge and Edward Hoagland Brown '41 3L of Cambridge and Deal, New Jersey, who split the graduate award and gleaned $300 apiece...
...bull butter," had taxed it, regulated and abused it for more than half a century. Women had hardly murmured. For one thing, early margarine was not very tasty. A French chemist had stewed up the first batch from animal fats in 1869 because Napoleon III had offered a prize for a butter substitute. The result was a lardlike, greasy substance. Improved margarine, made from coconut oil, caught the public fancy during World War I. But it was not until the butter-rationed days of World War II that millions of women began buying it in earnest...
...Post-Dispatch received a $500 gold medal; individual prize winners, $500 each...
...Sons. Edward G. Robinson, Burt Lancaster and Mady Christians in a good screen translation of Arthur Miller's prize play (TIME, April...