Word: awarded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wednesday night Bertram A. Knight, president of Phillips Brooks House, will award the Minute Man Flag to the chairman of the War Bond and Stamp drive of the House first to get 90 per cent participation, or with the highest percentage of participation. The Master of the winning House will attend the presentation dinner...
...stations in 28 states. It has been made part of the training for servicemen in Army and Navy posts across the country-it has been added to the language-teaching courses in many schools and colleges-and only recently it was given Ohio State University's Cultural Award, a sort of Pulitzer Prize in radio...
Sunday before last Procuna got this award for the third time in a bull fight in which he appeared with the idolized Silverio. Silverio won some applause for his handling of the first bull, then did badly with the next two (perhaps because the temperature was below freezing), and got whistles and catcalls from the crowd...
...Navy also has its faults, says Hubler, and cites an award of a medal for "diving a plane to a perilously low height." But for prodigality with medals he blames the Army most: "Navy men, viewing the mountains of color and insigne upon the left breast of Army men," often call out sardonically in bars, "Hey, hero, give me a light...
Hubler's conclusion is that "ratios of award should be established." Servicemen who agree with him point to the rigid parsimony with which Britain doles out her medals, particularly the nearly impossible-to-get Victoria Cross. Marines could also point to their missing ace, Major Gregory Boyington. He had knocked down 26 enemy planes without getting a single decoration...