Word: award
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...near the Union Boat Club. The winner will annex the Agassiz Cup, presented in 1931 by G. R. Agassiz '84, president of the Board of Overseers. A combination crew made up of Leverett and Adams House men will also row the course, although it will be ineligible for the award. Men on probation will be permitted to row in this race...
Young Tommy Adair is a purebred English bulldog, son of a grand champion. Some day he may know the feel of smooth green carpet under his feet, the glare of arc lights, the eyeing of solemn experts who may award him ribbons and medals for his form, coat, stance, carriage. But already he has won a prize-in Ocean City, N. J. one day last week-simply for being so appallingly, truculently ugly...
...communicate the charm of so fanciful a story as Zoo in Budapest -a charm which lies less in the narrative than in Rowland Lee's expert 'direction and in the fine camera work of Photographer Lee Cannes who last winter received the Cinema Academy's Award for his work in Shanghai Express. First of a series of eight pictures being made at Fox studios by an individual producing unit under Paramount's onetime Vice President Jesse Lasky, Zoo in Budapest should excite interest in forthcoming Lasky productions, of which The Warrior's Husband, Berkeley Square...
...Awarded. To tenor John McCormack; the Laetare Medal, Notre Dame University's annual award to a Catholic layman. To Dr. Frank Harold Spedding, 30, of the University of California: the Langmuir $1,000 award for promising young chemists; for discerning the arrangement and behavior of atoms in solids...
...commercial grower. The little old man was John Emil Lager, orchid-hunter, aged 72. He had grown the Rarest Orchid in his Lager & Hurrell hothouses in Summit, N. J. where grow nothing but orchids. Last week his Show entry of 133 plants, 60 varieties, won a special award as the finest commercial orchid exhibit...