Word: essay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Littèrateurs. In Toledo, Ohio, Lawrence A. Ostman, his wife Helen and her daughter Virginia each won a $300 refrigerator for their entries in the same why-I-like essay contest...
Babson himself believes that the most important use for anti-gravity screens would be in generating power. Babson's anti-gravity essay contest attracted 88 papers, which Babson read with delight ("It was just like opening Christmas presents"). On the advice of Boston's business panjandrum Charles Francis Adams ("Get a professor to look them over. That will take the smell off it"), he had the papers checked by Physics Professor Howard O. Stearns of Simmons College...