Word: prizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That the delicate linings of the nose are influenced by sex hormones is a theory well-known to biologists. Four years ago Biochemist Hector Mortimer of Montreal's McGill University and his colleagues, Dr. Robert Percy Wright and Nobel Prize-sharer James Bertram Collip, one of the discoverers of insulin, decided to put the theory to practical use. They dropped small amounts of female sex hormone estrogen into the noses of patients who suffered from atrophic rhinitis (withering of the nasal mucous membranes). Many patients recovered. But they were amazed when one woman announced that a ringing...
...result of their showing in a prize examination, testing the first of three grades of progress in the reading list, each of the students has been given a $50 prize...
Ordinarily only one prize of $100 is given for this examination, but because of the excellence of the three leading papers, the prize amount was increased to $150 and divided evenly between the winners, Professor Jones said...
...believe that the Negro problem is insoluble at the present," said Paul H. Buck, assistant professor of History, and Pulitzer Prize winner, at his lecture on the American Negro in the Freshman Union last night...
...winner of the Lee Wade prize receives $50; the Boylston prizes are $50 and $35 apiece...