Word: prizes
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...Prize...
Competition for the College's traditional Boylston Prize for public speaking gets under way in March, the English Department announced yesterday...
...earth is circled by electrically charged layers in the upper atmosphere, came to know more about them than any man alive (there is an Appleton layer, usually about 140 miles above the earth*). His researches made possible the development of radar, won him a knighthood and the 1947 Nobel Prize in physics...
...boxing, there weren't four heavyweights worth Joe Louis' time to lay them out. But last week, with much pomp & ceremony, four hopeful heavyweights climbed into prize rings to fight for the right to face the aging champ next June...
...literary event pleased just about everyone: T. S. Eliot won the Nobel Prize. Long admired by fellow writers, Eliot was honored for "pioneering work in modern poetry." Most agreed that he had more than earned the honor...