Word: won
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What recalled the cellar-kegs of the country was the news that Franklin Chase Hoyt, a Manhattan jurist, had won Publisher William Randolph Hearst's prize of $25,000 for a plan to modify Prohibition. The essence of Winner Hoyt's plan was to leave the 18th Amendment alone and simply to rephrase the Volstead Act so that it would prohibit distilled alcoholic liquors-created by acts of man-and permit beverages rendered alcoholic by fermentation, which, explained the Hoyt Plan...
...MacDonald considered himself already in power, spent the weekend picking a tentative Cabinet. Puffing happily on a cigar, his first smoke since he began campaigning early last month, he said: "The results are magnificent, but not surprising. The government has lost the confidence of the country and Labor has won...
...Liberalism, established as a family vote-preserve, Sir Austen heard he had a lead of only 50 votes over his Labor opponent. Incredulous, he demanded a recount. His lead then shrank to 43. In contrast, Sir Austen's humbler young halfbrother, Arthur Neville Chamberlain, Minister of Health, won what the London Times called "the most outstanding Conservative personal victory," a majority...
...that such a man should miss the prize he has earned because of a slip in perhaps, his sophomore year, when he was not yet of honors calibre. As long as, a senior's course record is satisfactory, it should not prove a belated handicap when the race is won and the medals are waiting...
After his graduation, Price spent a year abroad on the Charles Eliot Travelling Fellowship in Landscape Architecture, which he won by competition. Since his return, Price has been engaged by Olmstead Brothers, and Hallam Movius, landscape architects. Hanson is a graduate of the University of Illinois...