Word: awarded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, inspired by the award of a Bronze Star to T-3 Mickey Rooney for "entertaining troops under fire," Newsman Robert C. Ruark wrote in the New York World-Telegram...
Reinhold Rudenberg, Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering, is the recent recipient of the Stevens Institute of Technology honor award medallion for notable achievement for his invention of the electron microscope. The microscope played an important part in war industry and modern medical research...
...hope the decision promotes discussion." This was a classic understatement of what the decision would promote. Mr. Justice Ivan Cleveland Rand of Canada's Supreme Court had just announced a revolutionary arbitration award in the labor dispute at Windsor's sprawling Ford Motor Co. of Canada plant...
...money-making stars. During the next decade he played opposite such glittering screen favorites as Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Marion Davies, Greta Garbo, Jean Harlow, Lana Turner. By 1934 he had made It Happened One Night, with Claudette Colbert, and with the won the Academy award...
...peculiar characters in Elizabeth Metzger Howard's Before the Sun Goes Down, which earned its author, a Florida housewife, more money than any first novel ever received prior to publication ($20,000 from the Doubleday-Doran Novel Contest, $125,000 from the M-G-M Annual Novel Award). Life is never dull for Lillian, because Willowspring is astir from dawn to dusk with miscegenation, class conflict, drunkenness, antiSemitism, anti-Catholicism and incest...