Word: awarded
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From Hungary the German General Staff ordered a new army of some 400,000 men. Hungary's war lords flatly told Premier Laszlo Bardossy that this was impossible. Then the Wilhelmstrasse tried to blackmail Hungary by threatening to "rectify" the 1940 Vienna award which returned Transylvania to Hungary. Having struggled most of his public life to regain Hungary's lost territories, Dr. Bardossy tried to follow the example of his predecessor, Count Paul Teleki, who, when pressed too hard by the Germans, put a bullet through his head. (Dr. Bardossy was prevented...
...certain members of the University's governing bodies have their wish. General Douglas MacArthur will receive a degree without being present at the exercises as the rules require. The question in official circles during the past weeks has been whether the award should be made under that condition...
Lord Halifax was given the degree of Doctor of Laws last June, climaxing weeks of speculation and refusals by the University to admit whether or not the British ambassador was to receive any such award...
...paradox was more easily solved when General George Washington was to be awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. With the University at its temporary wartime quarters in Concord, the Corporation and several of the Overseers met in Water-town and on April 3 voted Washington the degree That same day they made the award at the General's headquarters in Craigie House...
Both movies were highly praised by the critics; the former received the Academy Award, and the latter was listed as one of the ten best pictures of the year by the New York critics. Both are based on novels; both deal with coal-mining. But while "How Green Was My Valley" has grossed heavily at the box-office through shrewd advertising based on the appeal of the book and the prestige of the director, John Ford; "The Stars Look Down," an English film directed by Carol Reed, has had to succeed on merit alone, even though it is the better...