Word: awarded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...view the extensive horticultural and agricultural exhibits as well as to partake of the pancakes and "trimmings'" which are served complimentary to our radio visitors at this time. This annual affair was first staged in the fall of 1926 after I had won the Radio Digest Gold Cup award as the world's most popular radio announcer, with the largest vote ever polled in any previous contests...
...first prize in the O. Henry Memorial Prize for a story, "An End to Dreams''; Social Worker Jane Addams (Chicago's Hull House), by an LL. D. from Swarthmore College; Copper Man Daniel Cowan Jackling, by the John Fritz Gold Medal (top engineering award) for making 2% copper ore profitable; Film Actress Greta Garbo, by an open letter asking that Sweden's King Gustaf give her a gold medal as one of Sweden's "foremost ambassadors...
...Famed cases: representing four Manhattan banks v. the Insull utility companies (lost, appealed, won), the children of the late Lady Curzon (Mary Leiter) to remove Joseph Leiter as trustee of Levi Leiter's estate (lost), the Chicago Tribune v. Henry Ford in Ford's suit for libel (award...
...Sherrington-Adrian award gave Great Britain a score of six Nobel Prizes in Medicine, against the two for the U. S. Previous Britons: the late Sir Ronald Ross (1902), Archibald Vivian Hill (1922), John James Rickard Macleod (1923, while at Toronto), Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1929). The U. S. Nobelmen: French-born Alexis Carrel (1912), Austrian-born Karl Landsteiner...
...award will be made by a Committee appointed by the Department of Classics on the basis, first of a thesis, the subject of which must be approved by this Committee, and secondly, of such other evidence of scholarship, and knowledge of Classical art and archaeology, as may be accessible. In special circumstances the Committee may, at its own discretion, dispense with the requirement of the thesis, and in the award no account is to be taken of the financial means of the competitor. The editors of the Harvard Studies in Classical Philology are granted the right to publish the thesis...