Word: prizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dudley House senior has won this year's Fay Prize--the highest honor bestowed on an undergraduate by Radcliffe College...
...sociology concentrator has won the first-ever Huggins Prize for the best senior thesis dealing with Afro-American history or culture...
...prize is designed to bring together student scholarship on Afro-American studies from across the College, Huggins said. The selection committee received entries from concentrators in a variety of departments, including History, Literature and Afro-American Studies, he said...
...most of the week, contradictory signals emanated from a country whose secretive rulers prize political stability above all else. Perhaps the most curious sign involved the army. On Monday seven retired generals, including former Defense Minister Zhang Aiping, signed a letter to the party leadership demanding that the P.L.A. not be used to quell the uprising. "The army must absolutely not shoot the people," it read. Two days later, the military's Liberation Army Daily quoted a letter from the P.L.A. general staff (also dated Monday) urging troops to study carefully a speech by Li Peng denouncing the uprising...
...begins The Good Times, the second installment of Baker's memoirs. The first, Growing Up (1982), won a Pulitzer Prize, stayed on best-seller lists for nearly a year, and remains a masterstroke of unpretentious autobiography. It too got its direction from the character of Lucy Elizabeth Baker, the needy young widow whose platitudes about hard work and gumption herded Russell and his sister through the Great Depression...