Word: prizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...motors, the better to pursue their wily prey. When the anglers returned to shore, crowds gasped in excitement as judges weighed the catch and flashed the results on a digital screen. The winner, Robert Byrd of Zwolle, La., brought in 60.7 lbs. of bass in just three days. His prize: $33,000 in cash and merchandise, part of a total purse...
...strange season of triumph for American literature. Ernest Hemingway. F. Scott Fitzgerald. Gertrude Stein--all American expatriates--wrote tales that captivated not only American readers, but also audiences worldwide. In that decade, William Faulkner published The Sound and the Fury, and Eugene O'Neill won the Pulitzer Prize in drama three times...
...will now be spoken in the same breath as other quoting greats such as Lene Falape, the little known muse of Western Samoa and Parla Augusta Ordunia, patron saint of Fiji," Polsky said. "This year has been like a fairy tale. First the Nobel Peace Prize, then the national championship, and finally this highly coveted prize. In a nutshell, I truly feel marvelous...
Donald Carswell tried to capture those emotions, as well as offer some advice to exam-takers, in his article "Beating the System," for which he won the Dana Reed Prize in 1951 for excellence in undergraduate writing. The Crimson proudly re-ran the article every reading period until 1962, when one grader was annoyed enough to respond...
Smith said that he was less surprised, because earlier in the semester one of his tutors had told him he was being considered for the prize...