Word: awarded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the degrees and one honorary degree have been awarded by President Conant, Major General Sherman Miles, commandant of the First Service Command, and Rear Admiral Robert A. Theobald, commandant of the First Naval District, will award representatives of the various service schools with certificates for their particular groups...
...Hope's double take may be a bit old by now, but it would take a dead man to keep from laughing when he ties the shoelace on a third foot which appears from under a sofa. As a foreign correspondent, Hope, who could easily receive the award for the world's worst newspaperman, has been in Europe, where he has managed to miss out on almost every important event, including the beginning of the Russian War. He dubs this a vicious rumor. His paper, the Amalgamated Press, recalls him and in a few brief words, Hope is ejected from...
...poetry award that went to Frost was his fourth Pulitzer acclaim. He received an M.A. from Harvard in 1897 and is now a Fellow in American Civilization here. He is an associate member of Adams House who frequently reads some of his poems or leads discussions about poetry at House or College gatherings...
Upton Sinclair was singled out for his "Dragon's Teeth," a novel published by an American and dealing with American life. "The Skin of Our Teeth," Thornton Wilder's fantasy now running on Broadway, was given an award for "the American play, performed in New York, which represents in marked fashion the educational value and power of the stage." Hanson W. Baldwin of the New York Times, was designated at the year's most distinguished correspondent on the basis of his South Pacific report. Either Forbes' "Paul Revere and the World Be Lived In" earned the prize for the best...
...Field Artillery, James R. Reynolds, Jr. '43, of Winthrop House and Lowell, Cadet Colonel, received the award for excellece in Mil Sci 4, while William P. Schlichter '44 of Leverett House and Cambridge was awarded a similar prize for the work...