Word: award
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Queen Elizabeth than of the peace of Munich. So their builders were also remembered on the King's honors list at the suggestion of the Prime Minister. A knighthood went to Stephen Joseph Pigott, managing director of the John Brown shipyards where they were built. The award of Commander of the Order of the British Empire went to George Patterson (Cunard-White Star's chief naval architect) and Donald M. Skiffington (John Brown yard director). Honest Tommy Rankin, foreman of the riveters who put the Queen Mary together, became a member of the Order of the British Empire...
...YEAR. THE MAJORITY OF LETTERS NOMINATING HIM HAVE BEEN WHOLLY CONDEMNATORY. IF HIS PICTURE APPEARS ON YOUR COVER ONLY AS TIME'S MAN OF THE YEAR THE CONTROLLED PRESS OF FASCIST COUNTRIES AND THE UNINFORMED OF ALL NATIONS WILL HAIL THE SELECTION AS AN AWARD OF MERIT. WE ASK THAT YOU CONFIRM THE TRUST OF THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST DEMOCRACY BY REFRAINING FROM CONVEYING THIS TITLE AS AN HONOR UPON A MAN WHO HAS DOMINATED THIS YEAR'S HEADLINES WITH HIS CRIMES AGAINST CIVILIZATION...
...competitive human world, a common platitude says that a man needs "backbone" to succeed. In the competitive animal world it is different. Scientists have other criteria than fame, money and power for measuring biological achievement. If they were polled they would probably award the gold medal of greatest biological success to the arthropods, a phylum (subkingdom) of invertebrates which includes crayfish, shrimps, lobsters, crabs, water fleas, barnacles, spiders, scorpions, ticks, insects. Reason: The phylum of arthropods (the name means "jointed legs") has the greatest number of species and individuals, occupies the widest stretches of territory and the greatest variety...
Nine Men Received Award...
...read twelve languages was a major factor in winning for Archibald B. Roosevelt Jr. '40, one of the four Rhodes Scholarships given annually in the New England district. Coming from Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y., Roosevelt is a consistently brilliant scholar, and the only Harvard man to earn the award for this year...