Word: prized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile came the House's next chance to spend-on the non-military section of the War Department supply bill. For generations, Rivers & Harbors appropriations have been prize political pork. Last week the House added $50,000,000 for flood control and navigation improvements to a $225,000,000 measure reported by the Appropriations Committee, excusing itself on the ground that this money would be deducted from the next Relief Bill...
Neal is president of the Debating Council and winner of the Coolidge Debating Prize as well as being a Junior Phi Beta Kappa. Gardiner is a member of the Signet Society...
Sharing Owner Woodward's joy, as he accepted the gold trophy (and $46.000) was his trainer, 65-year-old Jim Fitzsimmons, who had saddled both Mr. Wood ward's previous Derby winners. To "Mr. Fitz," as he is known to all racing folk, went 10% of the prize money. Another 10% went to Jockey Jimmy Stout, who had won his first Kentucky Derby al though he had ridden a favorite twice be fore. An hour later, while Louisville toasted Johnstown as another War Admiral, another Exterminator, another Man o' War, the big bay received his reward: three...
...hang of its inhabitants. His U. S. reputation thus established by his English success, when Frost returned to the U. S. in 1915 he found himself regarded as a famed American poet. In the next 22 years he received honorary degrees from 13 colleges, was thrice awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry...
Bert Haines's prize package 150 pounders lived up to all hopes last Saturday as the first boat nosed out the Eli lightweight crew by a third of a length on Lake Carnegie to take the Goldthwait Cup. The Princeton crew was left three lengths in the wake...