Word: awarded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...securing his boilers while the Jap airmen, apparently thinking the Utah, a target ship, was a carrier, gave the craft a savage working over. Tomich went down with her. For his devotion the President of the U.S. made the last entry in his personnel record: the posthumous award of the Medal of Honor...
Newspapers hopped gleefully into the controversy when they got another newsbreak: the resignation of one of CBS's most publicized newscasters. He was pale, frail, combustible Cecil Brown, 36, the honest but emotional reporter who survived the Repulse sinking and won radio's Peabody award for his warcasting (TIME, April...
...Philadelphia, H. Ellsworth Bennett, who attributed his good health to four hard-boiled eggs at breakfast, a glass of beer at 3 p.m. and 15 cigars a day, reached the age of 103, still collected the dollar-a-day injury award thrust on him by a railroad back...
Close on the train of Prince Henry, Luigi Amedo, Duke of the Abruzzi and Prince of Savoy, was granted the Doctor of Laws in 1907. His award was given in the same year that such American notables as James Bryee, Elihu Root, Harvard's George Lyman Kittredge, and Woodrow Wilson were similarly honored by the University...
Five years ago, in 1938, Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Swedon, on a visit to the United States received the LL.D. in the briefest and least publicized ceremony on record. The brevity and sudden action of this award presaged the "flying" degree presented today to Winston S. Churchill, Prime Minister of England...