Word: prizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Presented the annual $10,000 Collier's magazine awards for "distinguished congressional service" to Democratic Speaker Sam Rayburn and Republican Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg. (Rayburn gave his prize money to his home town of Bonham, Tex. for a library; Vandenberg gave his to the Park Congregational Church of Grand Rapids, Mich, as a memorial to his mother...
...hurt, he left his native land and went to Paris. There he soon found kinder friends, produced the brooding, mystical plays and essays (Les Aveugles, Pelléas et Mélisande, The Life of the Bee) which made his fame worldwide. Critics praised him. He won the Nobel Prize...
...Russian Caucasus, viniculturists like Armenian Marker Grigoryan have been producing champagne by more generally accepted methods. By the new process, for which Chemist Frolov-Bagreev received a Stalin Prize, the champagne will be speedily fermented in giant 1,300-gallon containers. A new factory-"the largest in Europe"-will be specially built in Moscow. Its products will include white champagne, as well as sweet and demi-sweet pink champagne...
Zurier was a winner of a $100 award in Wednesday's Coolidge Debate prize contest, rather than Donald L. Bornstein '50, as reported...
Harvard meteor authority Fred L. Whipple, associate professor of Astronomy and Chairman of the Astronomy Department, has been awarded the Smith Prize by the National Academy of Science, the College Observatory announced Thursday...