Word: second
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last month, in the presence of King Leopold III, a solemn ceremony at the Brussels Conservatoire Royal de Musique inaugurated the second Concours Ysaÿe. This time not violinists but pianists were to vie for honors.*From 22 nations came nearly 100 eager candidates, aged 15 to 30, chosen in most cases by national competition. Largest contingents were from England (13), Germany (12), Italy (12), France (n). Australia, China and Uruguay each sent one. The U. S. was meagrely represented by three pianists who happened to be in Europe. Only U. S. entry with any reputation...
Goal of each candidate was the Grand Prix International Eugène Ysaÿe, with a check from Queen Elisabeth for 50.000 Belgian francs ($1,695). Second prize: 25,000 francs, presented by the Belgian Minister of Education; ten smaller prizes ranging from 20,000 to 4,000 francs, presented by the Eugene Ysaÿe Fund. Judges of the contest, named by Belgium's Queen Elisabeth Musical Foundation, included eight world-famous pianists...
...many young U. S. architects now accept the credo of modernism. Of 252 designs submitted by 243 architects, all but a scant two dozen were modern in character, and the judges picked the work of two beginners. To the celebrated internationalists, Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, they gave second prize...
...great shells of luminous gas. At the core is a star about 100 times as big as the sun. Last week Dr. Fred Lawrence Whipple of Harvard Observatory reported that he had calculated the average lifetime of planetary nebulae at 30,000 years-in astronomical time, a split second...
...Cracked down on 13 major oil companies and eleven of their officers. Accused of illegally fixing the margin of profit for independent jobbers in the "second Madison oil case." these defendants fortnight ago pleaded nolo contendere (TIME, June 6). Last week. Federal Judge Patrick T. Stone of Madison, Wis. fined them a total of $360,000 plus $25,000 costs...