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.

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

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.

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.

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 ".

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.

A similar prize known as The Best of the Booker was awarded in 2008 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the prize.

Baralongs crew were later awarded £ 185 prize bounty for sinking U-27.

On 24 September 1915, Baralong sank the U-boat, for which her commanding officer at the time, Lieutenant-Commander A. Wilmot-Smith, was later awarded £ 170 prize bounty.

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

In 1997 he was awarded the Lemelson-MIT Prize of $ 500, 000, the world's largest single prize for invention and innovation, and the ACM Turing Award.

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.

A $ 1000 prize for the first person to find a security hole in djbdns was awarded in March 2009 to Matthew Dempsky.

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

He soon started to write short stories, although his career did not take off until 1982, when, through Harlan Ellison's help, his short story " The River Styx Runs Upstream " was published and awarded first prize in a Twilight Zone Magazine story competition.

The documentary received international recognition winning the main prize at the International Vega Awards for Excellence in Scientific Broadcasting.

The awards committee described him as the " incessant inventor and perpetual pitchman of late night television " and awarded the prize in recognition of his " redefining the industrial revolution " with his devices.

In 1884, Harding gained popular recognition in Marion, when his Citizens ' Cornet Band won the third place $ 200 prize at the highly competitive Ohio State Band Festival in Findlay.

The next year, she received the Hoover Medal, an engineering prize awarded jointly by five engineering societies, for her " contributions to motion study and to recognition of the principle that management engineering and human relations are intertwined .... Additionally, her unselfish application of energy and creative efforts in modifying industrial and home environments for the handicapped has resulted in full employment of their capabilities and elevation of their self-esteem ".

Saarinen first received critical recognition, while still working for his father, for a chair designed together with Charles Eames for the " Organic Design in Home Furnishings " competition in 1940, for which they received first prize.

The reason for this interest in the prize was not just academic recognition.

His works won recognition and numerous awards from such institutions as the following: the Paris Salon, the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Academy of Design ( Altman prize, 1916 ); and the Salmagundi Club ( Isidor prize, 1917 ).

She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for the role, but commented it was belated recognition for Of Human Bondage, calling the award a " consolation prize ".

This prestigious national recognition from the Milken Family Foundation comes with a cash prize of $ 25, 000.

The superb flavors were noted and given first prize with highest honors, thereby gaining national recognition.

From 2001, however, the prize is only given in one category, and is especially meant for beginning artists that deserve more recognition.

On 21 May 2009, Clarke was awarded by an " Outstanding Song Collection " prize, during the Ivor Novello Awards ceremony of the same day, in recognition of 30 years in the music industry.

His first major international recognition was at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival where he won the Best Director prize for Happy Together ( 1997 ).

Guastavino received important awards and recognition, such as the Municipal Prize from the city of Buenos Aires for his chamber songs, a prize from the Justice Ministry of Argentina, Prize of the Cultural Commission of Santa Fe Province for his songs, “ Vosotras ” magazine Prize for his “ Canción de Navidad ”, and a Prize from the Organization of American States and the Inter-American Music Council as recognition of his outstanding creative activity.

It was given a $ 300 prize and made news stories country-wide, bringing Wood immediate recognition.

No monetary prize was yet given ; the awards were simply recognition of the authors.

No monetary prize was yet given ; the awards were simply recognition of the authors.

In addition, his gift would establish a $ 1 million dollar prize to be given in recognition of a lifetime of achievement in the human sciences, comparable to the Nobel Prizes in literature and economics.

Effective 2010, the annual Griffin Poetry Prize was doubled from CAD $ 100, 000 to CAD $ 200, 000 in recognition of the prize ’ s tenth anniversary.

No monetary prize was yet given ; the awards were simply recognition of the authors.

At the Israel Prize ceremony in 1991, Mehta was awarded a special prize in recognition of his unique devotion to Israel and to the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.

It has also won the national prize for environmental quality in recognition of its emphasis on urban planning, green space, playgrounds and outdoor sculptures.

Having exhibited at home and at international fine art exhibitions, the award of a " grand prize " in 1904 at the St Louis International Exhibition, gave them the recognition they needed.