Word: awarded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Merit was winning recognition all over the place. Henry Ford II got the Thomas A. Edison Centennial Award for industrial statesmanship. John D. Rockefeller Jr. got the New York City Welfare Council's annual award for distinguished service to the community. Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder and C.I.O. President Phil Murray got Medals for Merit for their war work. And Harvard's President James B. Conant was awarded an honorary degree by the University of Illinois. Bernard Baruch passed the entire week without getting an award of any sort. Ethel Barry more still hard...
...awards have been made this year of the Jeremy Belknap, Bohemian Club, Francis Boott, Circolo Italiano, Louis Curtis, Dante, Harvard Monthly, George Arthur Knight, and Ruskin Prizes, nor of the first prize in the Susan B. Anthony award in Comparative Literature...
Bruce H. Allen '46 is recipient of the History and Literature Prize for that Junior "who shows greatest promise" in the field, and Charles M. Gray '49 and Fernando Zobeley Montojo '49 are joint winners of the Barrett Wendell award for the Sophomore who has made "the most notable progress" in his first year of History and Literature concentration...
...prizes consist of $50 each, with which the winners must buy books approved by their tutors. The Barrett Wendell award, given in honor of Professor Barrett Wendell of the Class of '77, first chairman of the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature, was split two ways this year. Both awards are made on the basis of general record, including work in tutorial, and winners are chosen by a committee of History and Literature tutors...
...when you write that kind of thing, that Christ is looking over your shoulder?" Yet Rank bears no rancor for Cinemactor James Mason, who thinks that Rank's monopolistic operations will eventually wreck Britain's movie industry. Recently Rank was called upon to accept a British drama award on Mason's behalf-a situation so whimsical that Rank recognized it with an amused twitch of his mustache. This week, at a friendly luncheon in Manhattan, he presented the award to Mason...