Word: prized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crusade to disinfect Miami's city hall of political dysentery, the Miami News won a Pulitzer Prize. Miami got a new mayor and, this week, a new city commission. In last week's primary for the commissioners, a lot of Miami Negroes got something they never had had before: a vote...
...numerical standards, the Plan's first year has failed to make a perceptible dent on the shining armor of Harvard indifference to "unifying principles." The program has consisted of four parts: the Bliss Prize examinations; public lectures on aspects of American History; open lectures in the Houses and Union; and weekly discussion groups. Less than twenty men took the prize examinations. The public lectures were heavily attended, but largely by Cambridge ladies in search of culture. The open House lectures, aided by intriguing titles and movies, often drew more than a hundred undergraduates. But at the weekly discussion groups...
...While I prize the spiritual values involved in the suggestion, I have been conscious that in a practical and cynical world, an activity which is reflected in a surplus on the balance sheet commands more present respect than those for which credit is to be given in the hereafter...
...best-selling novel, The Yearling, plump Marjorie Kinnan Rowlings was awarded this year's Pulitzer Prize. Other winners: Playwright Robert Emmet Sherwood (his second), for Abe Lincoln in Illinois; Biographer Carl Van Doren, for Benjamin Franklin; Scripps-Howard Correspondent Thomas L Stokes, for exposing WPA in Kentucky politics...
Unlike the Grand National, which offers a prize of ?7,000 to the winner, the Maryland Hunt rewards its victors with a silver tankard decorated with the coat of arms of Maryland...