Word: award
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the U. S. entered the World War, Congress added $2 per month to the pay of past and future Medal-of-Honor men so long as they remained in the Army, limited its award to him who "shall, in action involving actual conflict with an enemy, distinguish himself conspicuously by gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty." Since under these conditions a Medal-of-Honor soldier generally has to act single-handed and without orders, the War Department makes a painstaking search of all available evidence before it picks...
...innovation in giving individual winners of each event medals with replicas on them according to the event--that is, broads and narrows with a plate bearing an inscription of the award is being introduced...
...rules adopted in 1907 were very close to the rules that prevail today and provided for the award of Honors in some specific field other than in General Studies. Degrees cum laude were to be given in general studies, but summas were to be given only in "extraordinary cases...
...unusual restrictions on the summa award were lifted and this was reflected by the rise to 4 per cent Honors men receiving summas that year...
...Squibb and Sons of New York manufacturers of medical and chemical products, have established a fellowship for research in organic chemistry. The first award of $2000 has been made to William P. Campbell of Hagerstown, Maryland, for research on phenanthrene with Louis F. Fieser, associate professor of Chemistry, during the coming academic year...