Word: prizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More than 100 people crowded Boylston Auditorium last night to hear Richard L. Blumenfeld '80 and Jacqueline S. Kearney '78 capture first and second place repectively in the Boylston Prize Speaking Contest...
...Boylston Prize, which awards $100 to the winner and $50 to the runner-up, is not the most lucrative, but is among the oldest and most prestigious awards the University gives each year...
...words "supernatural" and "mystical" have no place in this understanding. In fact, some prominent physicists are seriously attempting to understand the laws involved and consult Maharishi frequently. One of these is Brian Josephson of Cambridge University, who received the Nobel Prize in 1973 for his work on the theory of quantum mechanical "tunneling...
...prize was a mere $50, but when Connecticut's Mohegan Community College called for a competition, 12,000 limericks arrived from every state and a couple of foreign countries. The absurdly prolific science writer Isaac Asimov, who numbers three volumes of Lecherous Limericks among his 180 or so published books, volunteered to be the judge...
...told in 34 to 49 syllables. Asimov likes them to be not only clever but also a bit vulgar. "Clean limericks lack flavor-like vanilla ice cream or pound cake," he claims. "They are perfectly edible but, to my taste, are tame, flat and unsatisfying." Nonetheless, Asimov awarded first prize to this limerick by George Vaill, retired secretary of Yale University...