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...taboo. Biblical allusions are out, too, ever since John Kieran attributed a bit of Scripture to "the Bronx version," and brought on a flood of sanctimonious protest. For a question accepted, Canada Dry pays $5, and $10 more plus the Encyclopedia Britannica if it stumps the experts. The Britannica prize was added last month. First winner, on Oct. 24, was Prisoner 12,973, Connecticut State Prison. 12,973's poser: "This man was an Assemblyman, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Governor, President of the United States." The man: Theodore Roosevelt. Guest Louis Untermeyer and the others said Franklin Roosevelt...
Murphy, Dr. George R. Minot '08, professor of Medicine, and Dr. George H. Whipple, of Rochester University, shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1934 when they discovered that liver and liver extracts are good remedies for anemia...
Murphy and his fellow researcher, Minot, are members of the select group of thirteen men who now represent the U.S. as Nobel Prize science winners...
...vote of the Harvard Corporation, Robert Frost, thrice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry and first holder of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Followship in Poetry, has been appointed an Associate of Adams House, it was announced yesterday...
...genius at rendering intimate accounts of New England life in poetry has caused him to be recognized as one of our foremost American poets and won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1924, 1930, and 1937, in addition to many other awards and honorary degrees...