Word: bestowers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Almost with awe one scans the list of scholars on whom Harvard will bestow honorary degrees at the Tercentenary of the university next September. Only a few of the names will be recognized even by educated persons, busy as they are with the ordinary activities of life. Many of the fields of study in which these scholars have specialized will be a terra incognita for the average man. What it "the ultra-centrifuge"? And "neo-positivism"? What is meant by "the chemistry of sesquiterpenes...
Greatest honor the U. S. can bestow is the Congressional Medal of Honor, a five-pointed gold star, swinging from a bar on which is engraved VALOR, below a blue ribbon dotted with 13 white stars. To prod privates, ineligible for other decorations, on to harder fighting, Congress during the second year of the Civil War passed an act providing for 2,000 medals "to such ... as shall most distinguish themselves by their gallantry in action and other soldierlike qualities during the present insurrection." The first medals were bestowed by Abraham Lincoln on four Yankee sergeants and two privates...
...worshipped with him. In solemn procession he would return to the Pauline chapel, then bear the Host back to the Sistine chapel for the Mass of the Presanctified. It was made known last week that the Pope would not celebrate Easter Mass in St. Peter's nor bestow public blessings on his flock as he did last year...
...Carlyle defined it,--"an infinite capacity for taking pains." If by adopting a less narrow-minded attitude towards his work, or taking a difficult course not in his field because he is interested in it, a man drops a group in his rating, that should be cause to bestow or continue a scholarship, rather than to refuse or rescind...
Count Ciano is an ace only as usage has pinned the title to such able airmen as Charles A. Lindbergh. Henceforth TIME will adhere to current military standards, bestow the rank only upon flyers who down five enemy planes and prove...