Word: award
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fitting climax to the Tercentenary year, the French Government took occasion to award this honor to President Conant, as well as to promote four other distinguished Harvard members of the Legion from Chevaliers to Officers, it was learned yesterday...
Between Christmas and New Year, when students have gone home for their midwinter frolic, university scientists are accustomed to put down their textbooks and laboratory tools and go on a busman's holiday. Soberly they attend dozens of conventions, read thousands of papers, talk shop, elect officers, award prizes, take stock of a year's progress, get their names in the newspapers, mingle with a sprinkling of industrial colleagues. Last week geologists convened in Cincinnati, geographers in Syracuse, mathematicians in Durham, N. C., philosophers in Cambridge, astronomers in Frederick, Md. (see p. 52), anthropologists in Washington, chemists...
...Council of State King Gustaf of Sweden decorated Cinemactress Greta Garbo with the nation's gold medal litteris et artibus, highest Swedish award for artistic achievement...
...result should qualify Composer Schwartz for some sort of award for the most satisfying musical novelty...
...Award...