Word: royal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week King Gustaf V of Sweden bestowed the 1925 prize for Literature on Bernard Shaw, personified by the British Minister at Stockholm. Recipients of the other prizes were not so offish. One and all they came to Stockholm, received their medals and diplomas from the royal hand. Recipients: 1925 Physics prize shared between Professor James Franck, University of Gottingen, and Professor Gustav Hertz, of Halle University; 1926 Physics prize to Professor Jean B. Perrin, University of Paris; 1925 Chemistry prize to Dr. Richard Zsigmondy, University of Gottingen; 1926 chemistry prize to Professor Theodore Svedverg, University of Upsala...
...Royal Highness seemed a boy; at 25, a lad; today, at 32, he passes for a youth. When he strode into The Bricklayers' Arms, a harmless enough "pub," shivering worn-out bums of 30 felt return the lively spring of their dead youth...
...recently in jest: "So, so! My tasks are nearly done. I have only to live until I find a wife for our five-year-old Crown Prince Peter" (TIME, May 10). The sap was running strong in M. Pashitch yet, it seemed. When he rode away to the Royal Palace it must have been to accept the Premiership for the twelfth time. Pashitch would take the helm. Everything would be all right...
Colonel Furlong has been a prominent figure in military and naval circles for the past 20 years. A Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, he has many times visited and explored the countries of Latin America. His numerous writings on his many adventures never fail to catch the popular fancy...
Tomorrow at 4.30 o'clock will be held the first of a series of three lectures by Count Umberto Gnoli, a distinguished authority on Umbrian art. Count Gnoli is Director of the Royal Gallery at Perugla, and Superintendent of Fine Arts for the Province of Umbria...