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Word: prized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Challenged, in bristling manner, Ohio Senator Robert A. Taft's ability to balance the U. S. budget; offered Mr. Taft "a handsome prize" if he would show the President how it could be done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Green Christmas | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...said he would sit tight at his Ainola estate near Helsinki. Finnish Runner Paavo Nurmi taped the windows of his Helsinki sporting goods shop, went ofi to enlist as a chauffeur. Finnish Author Frans Eemil Sillanpda, his seven offspring at his heels, left for Stockholm to receive his Nobel Prize for literature. Unable to stand drinks en route, Author Sillanpaa excused himself: "It's a little awkward at the moment but I'll soon have some money, for I'm on my way to Stockholm to receive the Nobel Prize." Pehr Evind Svinhuvud, 78, ex-President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 25, 1939 | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Mobilized at the beginning of the war, French Novelist Philippe Heriat found himself on duty guarding the Goncourt subway station in Paris. Fortnight ago, the name took on a new meaning for Novelist Heriat. He won the Goncourt Prize (5,000 francs), France's highest annual award for fiction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Goncourt | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Minister Guy La Chambre and Film Director Rene Clair. In 1916 Heriat gave up his studies to enlist, fought for 20 months. His first book, The Lamb, won the Renaudot Prize in 1931. The Spoiled Children, winner of the Goncourt, is his seventh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Goncourt | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...apparatus is similar in principle to other cyclotrons now in construction or operation throughout the world all of which are based on the fundamental design developed by Professor Ernest O. Lawrence of the University of California, recent recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Announces Completion of Atom Smasher, Useful in Research | 12/19/1939 | See Source »

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