Word: frederick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Technically, the distinction of being the first man to earn the nation's highest award for valor goes to Frederick W. Gerber, Sergeant Major of Engineers from 1839 to 1871, who was cited "for distinguished gallantry in many actions . . . covering a period of 32 years." However, the decoration did not exist before 1862. -ED.] These awards were to be issued for acts, "above and beyond duty," and I have no doubt that many were well-merited. However it must have been quite a shock to the 30 who escorted President Lincoln's remains to have been decorated...
...that they are bound to do and perform divers services on said day and at the time of the coronation ... we therefore out of our princely care for the preservation of the lawful rights and inheritances . . . have appointed our most dear brother and counselor, His Royal Highness Prince Albert Frederick Arthur George, Duke of York ... to sit in the Council Chamber at Whitehall ... [so that all persons whom it may concern] may give their attendance for the exhibiting of their petitions and claims for performance...
...researcher in chlorophyll (the green coloring matter of plants), graciously invited his outstanding rival, Chemist Dr. Hans Fischer of the University of Munich. A resounding roll of Nobel Prize winners included three physicists: Arthur Holly Compton (Chicago), Niels Bohr (Copenhagen), Werner Heisenberg (Leipzig); three chemists: Friedrich Bergius (Heidelberg), Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins (Cambridge), Theodor Svedberg (Upsala, Sweden...
Fordham University (New York) Chief Justice Frederick F. Crane of the New York State Court of Appeals ... L.L.D. District Attorney Samuel J. Foley of The Bronx ... L.L.D...
...Major manufacturers who hate to see their cars finish anywhere but first, still attend the race in droves but rarely enter their products. First eight places in last week's race went to Miller engines, made by famed Harry Miller of Los Angeles or his long-time Assistant Frederick Offenhauser, to whom he last year turned over most of his patterns. Four-cylinder engines are more popular than sixes or eights because of the premium placed on economy by the gasoline allowance-this year reduced from 42 ½to 37 ½ gallons...