Word: awarded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Restraint. To encourage good work by attendants, the National Mental Health Foundation last year began naming a "Psychiatric Aide of the Year." This week the 1948 award ($500 and a citation) went to Milwaukee's Brand. Chief reason why he was picked by a board of judges that included Author Mary Jane Ward (The Snake Pit): he has stopped using "restraint" (hospital lingo for straitjackets, "camisoles," belts, wristcuffs, etc.). In his ward, Brand has been trying kindness and reasonableness instead...
With some of his award money, Brand expects to pay off a $200 balance on a new bathroom and get the house painted. The award, he thinks, is a fine thing: "It will make attendants work hard and feel they are getting recognition for their work...
...with-a-heart-of-gold roles (though he started in films as a female impersonator), Beery was a box-office favorite for years in such money-making pictures as Tugboat Annie and Min and Bill (with Marie Dressier), The Big House, Grand Hotel, Viva Villa!, won an Academy award in 1931 for his role as the good-natured pug-ugly in The Champ...
...Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council yesterday received a special George Foster Peabody Award for its work in adult education through broadcasting. Edward A. Weeks, Jr. '22, editor of the Atlantic Monthly, made the presentation...
Twenty-eight young women will study in Radcliffe's Graduate School next year under fellowship grants announced yesterday by Dean Bernice B. Cronkhite. A twenty-ninth award will send the recipient to Mexico for travel and research in the field of economics...