The prize was an old-fashioned, woven cloth hammock, complete with cross-top pillow, fringed side pieces, and hooks for hanging.

`` The great Greek tragedies are concerned with man against Fate, not man against man for the prize of a woman's body.

and others in Buffalo, New York, Chautauqua, New Haven, Rochester, Rockport, and most recently, the $300 prize for a watercolor at the Laguna Beach Art Association,

He completed his training in pharmacy also, taking his degree with high honors in 1797, and in 1799 was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy along with a prize for an essay in medicine.

Oersted remodeled Ritter's notes into an essay in French which was submitted to the Institut De France for its annual prize of 3,000 francs.

Each person votes for one of a pair of pictures to receive a popular prize.

As a matter of fact, we prize the diversity among our own people so much that we will not presume to speak for all other American artists.

Albert John Luthuli, awarded a Nobel prize for his South African integration struggles, has to get permission to fly to collect his honor.

Second grand prize of $5,000 went to Mrs. Clara L. Oliver for her Hawaiian coffee ring, a rich yeast bread with coconut filling and vanilla glaze.

I had studied with Burns ten years before, during the scholarship year the Manhattan gave me, along with the five-hundred-dollar prize for my paintings of bums on Hudson Street.

Bertha von Suttner was awarded the 1905 Nobel Peace prize, ' for her sincere peace activities '.

The first three of these prizes are awarded for eminence in physical science, in chemistry and in medical science or physiology ; the fourth is for literary work " in an ideal direction " and the fifth prize is to be given to the person or society that renders the greatest service to the cause of international fraternity, in the suppression or reduction of standing armies, or in the establishment or furtherance of peace congresses.

There is no prize awarded for mathematics, but see Abel Prize.

The formulation for the literary prize being given for a work " in an ideal direction " ( in Swedish ), is cryptic and has caused much confusion.

This interpretation has since been revised, and the prize has been awarded to, for example, Dario Fo and José Saramago, who do not belong to the camp of literary idealism.

However this leaves no prize for herself.

He is best known for his appearance in Plato's Symposium, which describes the banquet given to celebrate his obtaining a prize for his first tragedy at the Lenaia in 416.

In the funeral games at the pyre of Patroclus, he contended with Odysseus and Antilochus for the prize in the footrace ; but Athena, who was hostile towards him and favored Odysseus, made him stumble and fall, so that he won only the second prize.

* 1977 – The Gossamer Condor wins the Kremer prize for human powered flight.

The show featured eight a cappella groups from the United States and Puerto Rico vying for the prize of $ 100, 000 and a recording contract with Epic Records / Sony Music.

In 1962, Giacometti was awarded the grand prize for sculpture at the Venice Biennale, and the award brought with it worldwide fame.

Boxing ( pugilism, prize fighting, the sweet science or in Greek pygmachia ) is a martial art and combat sport in which two people engage in a contest of strength, reflexes, and endurance by throwing punches at an opponent with the goal of a knockout with gloved hands.

They asked Zeus to judge which of them was fairest, and eventually he, reluctant to favour any claim himself, declared that Paris, a Trojan mortal, would judge their cases, for he had recently shown his exemplary fairness in a contest in which Ares in bull form had bested Paris's own prize bull, and the shepherd-prince had unhesitatingly awarded the prize to the god.

In August 2000 he won the first prize at the contest for bands of the 25th " Plinn festival " in Bourbriac ( Brittany ) with the band " Le Bûcheron Mélomane et les Nains de la Forêt " ( The Music-loving Lumberjack and the Dwarfs of the Forest ).

When Narmour got a chance to record for Okeh Records as a prize for winning first place in a 1928 fiddle contest, he recommended Hurt to Okeh Records producer Tommy Rockwell.

The music is intended to be representative of an African-American dance contest in which the prize is a cake.

The contest was extended by two years, and Germain decided to try again for the prize.

In 1815, after the elasticity contest, the Academy offered a prize for a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.

The following twister won the " grand prize " in a contest in Games Magazine in 1979:

At the end of the contest year, the four quarterly first place stories compete for a separate annual grand prize, the " Gold Award ," which includes an additional $ 5000.

" The writers are compensated for publication rights, but are not considered winners and receive no prize money, but are eligible to re-enter the contest.

Lipscomb later had a high-school physics course and took first prize in the state contest on that subject.

The cantata was presented at a musical contest in Milan and won the first prize.

Reality television is a television programming that presents purportedly unscripted melodramatic or " humorous " situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors, sometimes in a contest or other situation where a prize is awarded.

Later, Quinn studied briefly under Frank Lloyd Wright through the Taliesin Fellowship — an opportunity created by winning first prize in an architectural design contest.

* Target Club Wedd House contest prize, 2002

Bilko ( Phil Silvers ), who seeks prize money by entering Honigan in an eating contest.

" I say that Hitler ought to have the peace prize, because he is removing all the elements of contest and of struggle from Germany.

The Monge de Montaudon receiving a Eurasian Sparrowhawk | sparrow hawk as a prize for his performance in a contest

In 1921 in Paris, Segovia met Alexandre Tansman, who later wrote a number of guitar works for Segovia, among them Cavatina, which won a prize at the Siena International Composition contest in 1952.

Heracles heard of the prize and eagerly entered the contest for he very much wanted Iole.

Although Heracles had won the contest fair and square, he was not entitled to the prize because of his reputation.

These later sources add the details that Thamyris had claimed as his prize, if he should win the contest, the privilege of having sex with all the Muses ( according to one version ) or of marrying one of them ( according to another ); and that after his death he was further punished in Hades.

The band took first prize at a high school talent contest playing Merle Haggard's, " Sing Me Back Home.