Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More complicated cases, such as the radar award, are submitted to a commission, which listens to pleas, calls witnesses and weighs evidence very much as if it were a regular court of law. There is nothing sudden about its deliberations. The commission formed after World War I sat for 17 years and passed out a total of ?1,500,000. The present commission has been at work since 1946, and has thus far awarded...
...oatmeal fare. It treats everybody in Hollywood Hills as if they were small-town neighbors. The Crier reports their most trivial doings at home-and treats Reader Charlie Chaplin the same as his postman-and it pointedly ignores their outside accomplishments. When a subscriber wins an Academy Award, it isn't news for the Crier. But when Reader Irene Dunne traps a skunk in her house, it is. The Crier is a success because it is a slick Hollywood make-believe of a country newspaper...
...been concerned with winning tiny, uninteresting dual meets for the University of Wisconsin--Wilt had distance running pretty well monopolized. He had succeeded Parson Gil Dodds as mile king and was proving himself one of the best two-milers since Greg Rice. The A.A.U. had given him the Sullivan Award as the best male athlete for the 1949 year. Then came Gehrmann, and Wilt's fortunes took a decided turn for the worse...
...Dartmonth professors will be eligible for a new award given to faculty members who have made "notable contributions to the improvement of undergraduate instruction," President John S. Dickey announced yesterday. Money for the gift will come from a recent endowment by a graduate...
...plan will be administered at the discretion of President Dickey, who will determine the award winners each year...