Word: prizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...single leg, but he had won the first section of the Gran Premio and its first prize of 114,000 pesos ($23,450). Said Domingo, chewing on a big cigar: "I kept my eyes on the road, that's all." The race had cost ten lives (one driver, two mechanics, seven bystanders), left nearly 100 drivers stranded along the road, practically ruined 138 good automobiles. What cars were left would now be shipped to Lima, Peru, where the second and shorter section of the Gran Premio, back over the mountains to Luján, near Buenos Aires, would begin...
...seven-girl team of Radcliffe commuters with a banjo and an 11-stanza ditty set to the tune of "Hair of Gold" won the second annual Song Contest at the Annex Quadrangle last night. They will keep the prize--a silver loving cup--for one year...
...intercollegiate forward-passing record, has now gained 1,758 yards by passing this season. But Santa Clara rushed him so hard that he had trouble getting his passes off. Even so, Quarterback Heath, son of an old big-league catcher, is regarded by pro teams as one of the prize catches of the 1948 season...
...Olympics, Maestro Mariles was easily the best horseman of the prize-winning Mexicans. In Manhattan last week, he won the West Point Challenge Trophy on his pet 18-year-old jumper, Resorte. He rode a horse like a champion -without seeming to work at it. The big secret of Mexican riding is controlling the horse's movements almost entirely through the rider's legs-not his hands. Says Mariles: "The motor of the horse is in back, not in front. A horse is not an automobile; you don't drive him by his nose...
Student division--Francis X. Sutton, Junior Prize Fellow in Social Relations; Robert Solow 2G, Jacob C. Levenson, Teaching Fellow; Richard Webster '51, treasurer of the Seminar; William D. Weeks '49, president of the Student Council, and one other member from the Council, as yet undesignated...