Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reprints of medical articles announcing great modern discoveries are as rare and valuable as 15th-Century incunabula. One of the rarest items Mr. Schuman ever handled was a reprint of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes's brief essay proving that childbed fever may be caused by filthy obstetricians and hospital wards. Several years ago, Mr. Schuman visited the late Sir Frederick Banting in Toronto, asked him to sell a reprint of his first article on the discovery of insulin. Replied Sir Frederick ruefully: "I have only one copy left on file...
...Oakland, Calif, high school 46 years ago Yosuke Matsuoka wrote in an essay: "If my country needs a statesman, I will be the statesman." He has been businessman, diplomat, foreign minister; always he has anticipated, with the mind of a lightning calculator, what it was that his country would need. He was an Asiatic expansionist before the Manchukuo Incident, a totalitarian seven years before the Konoye reorganization. The crew haircut, the round, boy's face, the carefree smile, the candor, the courtesy, the mystic organ-note of his speechifying, all mask the hard core of the opportunist...
Third Prize of $100 to Arthur Kinoy '41, of New York, N. Y., for an essay entitled "Arise and Depart, for This is not Your Rest: The Resignation of George Ripley from the Ministry of the Unitarian Church...
Honorable mention to Cris G. Petrow '41, of Ames, Ia., for an essary entitled "Virginia Woolf and the Novel of Silence: A Study in Technique;" Robert G. Nassau '41, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; for an essay entitled "Land and the Labor Movement;" and Nathaniel W. Roe '42, of Patchogue, I. I. N. Y., for an essay entitled "The Metaphysics of Experience: An Essay on the Philosophy of A. N. Whitehead...
Second Prize of $200 to Harry D. Feltenstein Jr. '41, of St. Joseph, Mo., for an essay entitled "The Metaphor Roots of the Symbol...