Word: nobel
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Echegaray, who is also noted as a mathematician and statesman, high rank is universally accorded among the play-wrights of our own day. Not long ago he was awarded the Nobel prize, as a tribute to his artistic powers. It is to the problem play that Echegaray has given his greatest attention, and the fullest measure of his success in this direction may be seen in the piece which Mr. Faversham now offers in a form somewhat different from that in which Mr. Blair presented it in Boston, 1899, but sufficiently faithful to the original. From first to last...
...Norwegian Parliament yesterday conferred the Nobel Peace Prize upon Theodore Roosevelt '80, in recognition of his services in bringing about the peace between Japan and Russia. The prize was founded by the will of Alfred Nobel, of Sweden, in 1896. The value of the prize is estimated at $40,000. President Roosevelt has signified his intention to devote the fund to the foundation of a permanent industrial peace committee at Washington...