The eventual prize in this new battle was the public printing contract that Woodruff still held.

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

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.

The sound discoveries of this quixotic genius were so diluted by those of fantasy that the prize was never awarded to him.

Mrs. Alice H. Reese, wife of an engineer and mother of a 23-year-old son, was awarded the top prize at a luncheon in the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

Though her personal contact with Alfred Nobel had been brief, she corresponded with him until his death in 1896, and it is believed that she was a major influence in his decision to include a peace prize among those prizes provided in his will.

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

When Mankind was given the prize of Eden, Absalom led his armies against Heaven and Hell in an attempt to steal it back.

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.

Salamis holds a prominent place in The Persians, his oldest surviving play, which was performed in 472 BC and won first prize at the Dionysia.

By 473 BC, after the death of Phrynichus, one of his chief rivals, Aeschylus was the yearly favorite in the Dionysia, winning first prize in nearly every competition.

First prize was a pair of lifetime season tickets awarded to the person who submitted the winning entry.

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

It was to Aegina rather than Athens that the prize of valour at Salamis was awarded, and the destruction of the Persian fleet appears to have been as much the work of the Aeginetan contingent as of the Athenian ( Herod.

A valuable prize, the city was repeatedly sacked: by the Triballi in 376 BC, Philip II of Macedon in 350 BC ; later by Lysimachos of Thrace, the Seleucids, the Ptolemies, and again by the Macedonians.

Griffith Rhys Jones-or Caradog as he was commonly known-was the Conductor of the famous ' Côr Mawr ' of some 460 voices ( the South Wales Choral Union ), which twice won first prize at Crystal Palace choral competitions in London in the 1870s.

For example, he once missed first prize in a tournament in Berlin by losing to Sämisch, and when it became clear he was going to lose the game, Nimzowitsch stood up on the table and shouted, " Gegen diesen Idioten muss ich verlieren!

In the hunt, Atalanta drew the first blood, and was awarded the prize of the skin.

The prize was originally known as the Booker-McConnell Prize, after the company Booker-McConnell began sponsoring the event in 1968 ; it became commonly known as the " Booker Prize " or simply " the Booker.

" When administration of the prize was transferred to the Booker Prize Foundation in 2002, the title sponsor became the investment company Man Group, which opted to retain " Booker " as part of the official title of the prize.

The prize money awarded with the Booker Prize was originally £ 21, 000, and was subsequently raised to £ 50, 000 in 2002 under the sponsorship of the Man Group, making it one of the world's richest literary prizes.

The award is given annually to one " outstanding young computer professional " and is accompanied by a $ 35, 000 prize.

As of 2007, the award is accompanied by a prize of $ 250, 000, with financial support provided by Intel and Google.

A single grand prize, also called the Gold Award, is accompanied by a prize of $ 5000-judging is based only on the final illustration, not the initial portfolio.

Before 1987, a limited edition Henry Moore sculpture accompanied the monetary prize.

Akhmatova was able to meet some of her pre-revolutionary acquaintances in 1965, when she was allowed to travel to Sicily and England, in order to receive the Taormina prize and an honorary doctoral degree from Oxford University, accompanied by her lifelong friend and secretary Lydia Chukovskaya.

The award is a tribute to well-known Canadian humorist Stephen Leacock ( 1869 – 1944 ), and is accompanied by a cash prize of $ 15, 000 ( CAD ).

This endowed award is accompanied by a prize of $ 10, 000, and is supported by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence ( AAAI ), Association for Computing Machinery ( ACM ), and by individual contributions.

As of 2010, the prize is accompanied by a monetary award of € 50, 000.

The award consists of a plaque and a certificate, and is accompanied by a cash prize and a lifetime membership in SIGAPL.

The prize was accompanied by a photo and video retrospective, “ If Not Now, When ?” at the Sprengel Museum in Hanover and NGBK in Berlin.

The Sylvester Medal is a bronze medal awarded by the Royal Society ( London ) for the encouragement of mathematical research, and accompanied by a £ 1, 000 prize.

The prize is accompanied by a ceremonial $ 100 check to one of that city's school's hat and mitten drive.

It was presented as a special award, from 1971-1975, and accompanied with a cash prize, before it became a competitive award from 1976, onwards.

Bishop Asser tells the story of how as a child Alfred won a prize of a volume of poetry in English, offered by his mother to the first of her children able to memorise it.

An Andrei Sakharov prize is also to be awarded by the American Physical Society every second year from 2006, " to recognize outstanding leadership and / or achievements of scientists in upholding human rights ".

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.

Throughout the 17th through 19th centuries, boxing bouts were motivated by money, as the fighters competed for prize money, promoters controlled the gate, and spectators bet on the result.

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations, Ireland, or Zimbabwe.

The selection process for the winner of the prize commences with the formation of an advisory committee which includes an author, two publishers, a literary agent, a bookseller, a librarian, and a chairperson appointed by the Booker Prize Foundation.

He entered it for a prize by the Hungarian Fine Arts Commission, but they rejected his work as not fit for the stage ( Chalmers 1995, 93 ).

It is one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems selected by the Clay Mathematics Institute to carry a US $ 1, 000, 000 prize for the first correct solution.

It was awarded a prize for the best painting by a female artist at the Academy, and further exhibited in Philadelphia and New York.

Describing the work as " 57 seconds of growth and fire, and three seconds of vomit ", Lynch played the film on a loop at the Academy's annual end-of-year exhibit, where it shared joint first prize with a painting by Noel Mahaffey.

was conferred upon Brewster by Marischal College, Aberdeen ; in 1815 he was made a member of the Royal Society of London, and received the Copley medal ; in 1818 he received the Rumford Medal of the society ; and in 1816 the French Institute awarded him one-half of the prize of three thousand francs for the two most important discoveries in physical science made in Europe during the two preceding years.

The prize, administered by the Dylan Thomas Centre, is awarded at the annual Swansea Bay Film Festival.

Devo gained some fame in 1976 when the short film The Truth About De-Evolution by Chuck Statler won a prize at the Ann Arbor Film Festival.

* Einhard-Preis Literature prize awarded by the Einhard-Foundation of Seligenstadt to authors for writing an outstanding biography

In 1970 and 1971 three 504cc Cheney Triumphs were used by the British team in the ISDT, in which Cheney won a manufacturer's prize.

* And Quiet Flows the Don ( 1957-8 ) by Sergei Gerasimov-an adaptation of the Nobel prize winning novel And Quiet Flows the Don.

In 2008 Paolo Sorrentino's Il Divo, a biographical film based on the life of Giulio Andreotti, won the Jury prize and Gomorra, a crime drama film, directed by Matteo Garrone won the Gran Prix at the Cannes Film Festival.

He then relocated to Rome, where in 1771 he won second prize in a painting competition organized by the City of Parma.

The annual $ 25, 000 prize is administered by the Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History and the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale.

Although he spoke with apprehension at his award speech about the danger which the authority of the prize would lend to an economist, the prize brought much greater public awareness of Hayek and has been described by his biographer as " the great rejuvenating event in his life ".