Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kentucky Prize was made possible by a grant from the Jessie Preston will be given annually while the Iowa prize, from money of the Charles Eliott Perkins Scholarship Fund will be awarded in alternate years...
...assistant off their feet, near the finish line of the All-American Soap Box Derby which they were trying to broadcast. At the crash, timid Mrs. Betty Searles fainted. After it, daring Maurice E. Bates of Anderson, Ind. won the Soap Box Derby and a four-year college scholarship offered by Chevrolet Motor...
...excited as her charges was the Union's founder and angel, Mrs. Alexander Murray Hadden. A statuesque Manhattan socialite with white hair and blue saucer eyes, Mrs. Hadden every year invites a select group of U. S. colleges to give one or more of their students a $300 scholarship at the Union. To furnish contacts she then corrals an equal number of foreign students. Ostensibly the Union is devoted to a serious eight-week study of international relations. But Mrs. Hadden, who is thought frivolous by many of her serious-minded charges, provides a breath less round of teas...
...lonely, daydreaming Adolf was losing his mind in sympathy for his mother's suffering because he spent all his time woodcarving, drawing, painting. Adolf was 18 when his mother died in 1907. The next year he took his drawings to Vienna's great Kunstakademie (Art Institute), applied for a scholarship. He was turned down, generally for "lack of talent," specifically because his drawings were too "architectural." And the orphan, who had assigned all his father's income to his sister, could not afford to take the preliminary courses necessary to become an architect...
NOVEMBER 23--Harvard declines Mellon scholarship as replacement of Hanfstaengl award...