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.

In 2006, the prize instituted a longlist for the first time, comprising no fewer than 10 and no more than 15 titles.

In 1998 a literature prize was instituted in her name: the Mercè Rodoreda prize for short stories and narratives.

Hooft died, a literary prize in his name was instituted by the Dutch government.

The most important prize is the grand prix de la francophonie, which was instituted in 1986, and is funded by the governments of France, Canada, Monaco, and Morocco.

This is the older prize awarded by the Academy, named after Carl Linnaeus: the prize was instituted upon a donation by Linnaeus widow, Sara E. Linnaeus, on 8 September 1803.

This is the second older prize awarded by the Academy, instituted on 12 May 1827, upon a donation by the Secretary of State Erik Bergstedt.

It is a prize, awarded yearly, named after Erik Benzelius the younger, instituted in 1980 and entirely founded by the Academy: it is meant as a grant to young researchers.

The Foundation instituted the Infosys Prize, an annual award, to honor outstanding achievements of researchers and scientists across five categories: Social Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering and Computer Sciences, Mathematical Sciences and Life Sciences, each carrying a prize of rupees 50 Lakh.

The President of Armenian Republic had instituted a scientific reward: the Ambartsumian prize.

His mother, who survived him, instituted the Troyon prize for animal pictures at the École des Beaux Arts.

The prize was instituted in 1947 by William Somerset Maugham and thus bears his name: the award is to be spent on foreign travel.

* Jackson Trophy — The Trophy was instituted by members of Nottingham Britannia RC in 1950, as the prize for an annual " County Eights " event between Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.

In 1991, a prize for the best final year project in the Moderatorship in computer science course at Trinity College Dublin – the Ludgate Prize – was instituted in his honor.

He won the prize eight times, on one occasion with his tragedy, Mausolus, in the contest which the queen Artemisia of Caria had instituted in honor of her dead husband, Mausolus.

He was educated privately till, at the early age of seventeen, he matriculated at University College, Oxford, where in 1856 he took his degree with a first class in the then recently instituted school of law and history, gaining, three years afterwards, the Chancellor's prize for an essay upon the effect on Spain of the discovery of the precious metals in America.

The Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition is an annual prize instituted by H. Charles Grawemeyer, industrialist and entrepreneur, at the University of Louisville in 1984.

A biennial literary prize known as the Frau Ava Literaturpreis was instituted by local endeavour in 2001 and first awarded in 2003, open to works by already published female writers in German on spiritual, religious or political topics aimed at, or appealing to, a youth readership.

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.

This work was based upon earlier studies by Severo Ochoa, who received the Nobel prize in 1959 for his work on the enzymology of RNA synthesis.

Regardless of whether or not locomotives were settled upon, a prize of £ 500 was offered to the winner of the trials.

In the road transportation arena these theories were extended by Maurice Allais, a fellow Nobel prize winner " for his pioneering contributions to the theory of markets and efficient utilization of resources ", Gabriel Roth who was instrumental in the first designs and upon whose World Bank recommendation the first system was put in place in Singapore.

Stebbins's plan, upon winning the Walk, is to ask that his prize be to be " taken into father's house ".

It was literally a cash prize ; rather than endure the embarrassment of media sneers about whether a WFL check would clear, the league neatly stacked cash high upon a table in the middle of the field.

In 467 BC the Athenian playwright, Aeschylus, is known to have presented an entire trilogy based upon the Oedipus myth, winning the first prize at the City Dionysia.

When Polydectes and his nobles gazed upon the prize, they were then turned to solid stone.

The film was a critical success upon its debut and went on to win the Grand Jury prize for Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival, and has since gone on to become a cult film.

The name was decided upon by a contest open to all students with a grand prize of $ 10.

The award, which includes a silver gilt medal and a £ 1000 prize, was decided upon by the Institute of Physics in 1985, and first granted in 1987.

< cite > GAWLER PRIZE MUSIC — The Judges who had undertaken to decide upon the music set to the ' Song of Australia ' met yesterday, and, after due examination, agreed to the following report: — " The Judges appointed to award the prize for the best musical composition set to the words of the prize song, entitled ' The Song of Australia ,' met on Friday, the 4th November — present, Messrs. Dutton, Ewing, Chinner, and Holden.

From the accession of Queen Anne the Paymaster tended to change with the Ministry, and 18th century appointments must be considered as made not upon merit alone, but by merit and political affiliation, the office becoming a political prize and perhaps potentially the most lucrative that a parliamentary career had to offer.

* Rolling dice to receive cash based upon the roll or achieving a cumulative score within a certain number of rolls to win a larger prize.

However, upon defeat, the opponent would draw 2 prize card instead of 1, making the use of EX monsters a risky prospect.

Unfazed, Edgar pressed ahead-his alarmed workmates at the Mail prevailed upon him to lower the prize money to £ 500: a £ 250 first prize, £ 200 second prize and £ 50 third prize, but were unable to restrain him in the privacy of his home.