Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These scholarships each carry a silpend and are intended for graduates of public high and Latin schools within a radins of 20 miles of the State House. High scholarship is essential for the award, although the committee also considers character qualities of leadership and generally well-rounded development...
Among other things that the chemists were to do was the presentation of a gold award to Professor Sabatier of the University of Toulouse, Nobel prizewinner in 1912, who led the French delegation. The award was to be supplied by the Procter & Gamble Co. (Ivory Soap) of Cincinnati whose debt to Professor Sabatier is great, he having perfected a catalytic effect with nickel that permits hydrogen to be added to many compounds, "especially the oils," whence soap of a famed fractional purity is manufactured...
...TIME, Aug. 9). Each entry had been rated according to its fuel consumption, manageability, carrying power, and other qualities, leaving it up to the pilots to gain further points by good speed and navigation in getting from point to point. Not a great deal of figuring was needed to award first prize to Pilot Walter Beach and his Wright-motored Travel Air No. 2. With perfect equipment, and higher speed than most, he had been able to leave the stopping places last and arrive at destinations irst; also, he was aided by an able navigator, Brice Goldsborough of the Pioneer...
Alessandri Rampant. Former President Alessandri of Chile, now a guest of the Chilean Embassy at Washington, declared to news gatherers: "President Coolidge has shown himself incapable of carrying out his decision, as announced in his award*-the Judge has been unable to carry out the sentence-with the result that increased misunderstanding has arisen between Chile and Peru...
...Award 10 Honorary Degrees...