Word: prizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Timothy G. Foote '49, with a paper on "The Wreck of the Deutschland: An Elegy," has won this year's Bowdoin first prize, Sargent Kennedy '28, secretary of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, announced last night...
After their long political catnap, the Conservatives were at last thoroughly awake, worked harder than Labor to get out the vote. By week's end, the Conservatives had captured a prize beyond their fondest hopes: they had chalked up a net gain of 829 seats, while Labor had lost 633. The Tory tide swallowed Wandsworth, Ernie Bevin's home borough, and Herbert Morrison's own stamping grounds of Lewisham. The Conservatives registered big gains in London's working-class Hammersmith and Holborn districts. Moaned one Labor official: "It turns our stomach...
Beetle-browed Vince Foster was not a thoughtful young man in spite of the perplexed look that always lay on his battered countenance. But he had a wicked punch, and the little touch of meanness that puts a razor edge on a fighter. In prize rings around Omaha, he stood wide-legged, off-balance and clumsy, but he still knocked out twelve of the first 20 opponents that faced him. Out of the ring, Vince was just as rugged; in the course of a brawling youth, he once gave the marshal of Rulo, Neb. two black eyes with one punch...
...years at the University of California School of Jurisprudence, Professor Alexander Marsden Kidd has had no trouble living up to his obvious nickname. In all the university's vast (3,250 members) faculty, no teacher is so fierce in pursuit of his prize (knowledge) or so furious in the treatment of his enemy (the lazy student) as the law school's "Captain Kidd...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences will announce, at its next meeting, the award of the Sales Prize for 1948-49 to John dos Reis Fonseca '49. The prize, awarded for proficiency in Spanish Composition, will be the income from the Sales Fund...