Word: awarded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second ruling is certainly more radical, and justly so. The proposal of the Committee to award scholarships to twenty preparatory school students, the recipients to be named by the respective headmasters, places the grants in the hands of men qualified to judge more capably of the qualifications of these prospective Freshmen. Much more than the trial-and-error method which the University of necessity now assumes the new plan will have the benefit of first-hand experience to make the awards on a basis of merit. By its very nature a scholarship is not financial aid alone...
Walter Johannes Damrosch, composer, National Broadcasting Co. orchestra director, received word from his daughter, Mrs. Alice Damrosch Pennington, that she had won the gold ski award at the Parsann ski derby for women, at Davos, Switzerland...
...Dieudonne ("Doudou") Costes of France went last week the Harmon Trophy, awarded (in Paris) by the International League of Aviators. The league was founded in 1926 by Clifford Harmon, to recognize and reward the persons who do each year's outstanding air work. Costes' 1929 work: non-stop flight from Paris to Tsitsihar, Manchuria, 4.910 mi. (farthest); Hanoi, Indo-China, to Paris, 4 days, 18 hrs. (fastest); closed circuit, 4.987 mi., around Marseilles (longest); with one ton cargo 2,048 mi. (farthest) for 18 hrs. i min. 20 sec. (longest). The 1927 award went to Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
...coveted prizes are to be awarded to the two best sets of plans submitted, a $500 award and a trip to Fontainebleau, France, to each winner. The Harvard architects are to finish their plans by March 24 for a preliminary competitive judgment with the men from the architectural school of M. I. T. The selected winners in this contest will be sent to New York City for the final decisions...
...last week the highest Bok Award, the big gold medal "For Distinguished Contemporary Service to Advertising," went to the father-in-law who should have had it years ago, Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, of the Saturday Evening Post, et al, "because of his strict adherence ... to high standards of reliability in advertising...