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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.

prize and increased
Though the average number of laureates per prize increased substantially during the 20th century, a prize may not be shared among more than three people.
The total prize package for the award was increased to $ 50, 000, with $ 40, 000 presented to the winning author and $ 2, 500 each for the other four shortlisted nominees.
In 2008, the prize fund was increased to $ 50, 000 for the winning author and $ 5, 000 for each of the authors on the shortlist.
By 1980, the council began to announce the finalists for the awards a month before they were presented in order to attract more media attention, and in 2007 the cash prize was increased to $ 25, 000.
On the day of the Ski Festival, the jumpers collectively demanded NOK 150, 000 in increased prize money, or threatened to not jump.
The Irish Derby became a major international race in 1962, when its prize money was substantially increased.
Following the 2004 event, Dr. Tony Tether, the director of DARPA, announced that the prize money had been increased to $ 2 million for the next event, which was claimed on October 9, 2005.
Since starting, the prize money and qualifying distance has increased and in 2009 at Worthing it stood at £ 30, 000 for reaching.
By 1990 the record was 71 metres, the prize distance had been increased to 100 metres and the prize money was £ 25, 000.
When he is chosen as a contestant on the radio quiz show, the prize money is increased beyond the usual $ 64.
On January 19, 1976, the show increased its top prize and was renamed The $ 20, 000 Pyramid.
The prize was awarded in recognition of Pires role in making Cape Verde a " model of democracy, stability and increased prosperity ".
Her international profile also increased when she received the Best Actress prize for her performance in Himitsu at the 30th Catalonian International Film Festival.
Since 2001 the prize money has increased to 1 million Swiss Francs per prize, on condition that half the money is used for projects involving young researchers.
This increased the maximum bonus prize to $ 500 ($ 1, 000 from 1973 to 1974 when the regular Lightning Round values were doubled ).
Thus a reader who submitted a large number of entries increased his or her chances of winning but reduced the maximum possible value of the prize.
The original deadline, October 1, 1921, was extended to December 31, 1921 and the prize money was increased to $ 100 .< ref > Offering Prize for State Song, < u > Oakland Tribune </ u >, Sect B, pg 5Dec.
As a further measure of economy, on 24 March the Duke of York had ordered the discharge of most of the crews of the prize vessels, leaving only three guard ships at the Medway ; in compensation the crew of one of them, the frigate Unity ( former Dutch Eendracht, the first ship to be captured in 1665, from the privateer Cornelis Evertsen the Youngest ) was raised from forty to sixty ; also the number of fireships was increased from one to three.
The online betting company Betfair started to sponsor the King George in 2009, and its prize fund was increased from £ 750, 000 to £ 1, 000, 000.
It became part of a new fixture called British Champions Day, and its prize fund was increased fourfold to £ 1, 000, 000.
With an increased prize fund of £ 1, 300, 000, the Champion Stakes was Britain's richest horse race in 2011.

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