Word: golde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Besides two books on his experiences in the war, he wrote several books and many articles on metallography and the metallurgy of iron and steel. Outside of his honorary degrees he was awarded the Cresson Gold Medal of the Franklin Institute, the Bessemer Medal of the British Iron and Steel Institute, and the Albert Sauveur Achievement Medal of the American Society for Metals...
Last September, Marino Bello, once stepfather of the late Jean Harlow, had asked him to outfit and man his vessel so that Bello and friends-notably Countess Dorothy di Frasso, a nurse named Evelyn Husby, and Richard E. Fulley, a cousin of Anthony Eden-could hunt for gold on Cocos Island, some 300 miles southwest of Costa Rica. Hoffmann signed on a crew consisting of three able-bodied seamen, a few waterfront hangers-on, some fine-looking NYA boys from Long Beach, some men who said they were engineers. In quick succession the Metha Nelson rammed another vessel, caromed...
Many a youngster has grown up in the museum, become a learned member of its science club. Recently a little girl brought in a medal and asked whether it was made of gold. A 9-year-old boy determined its specific gravity, answered that...
...gazelles, affected by occidental illustrators. This painting, 6 by 8½ in., belongs to the Timurid period of 'Persian art, after the Mongol conquerors, Genghis Khan and Tamerlane, had brought in Chinese influences. But there is no Chinese depth or shading in the picture. The pure red, gold, blue and green robes of the figures, their rouged cheeks and the formalized tree and flowers are all in the Persian style of clear, brilliant, primarily decorative design...
...Dawes Plan and president of the Bank for International Settlements in Basel. This made him an expert at international finance, but left him ignorant of commercial banking (in its puny safe B. I. S. has only two coins, one of them a counterfeit, the other a 25? California gold piece). Chunky Leon Fraser left B. I. S. in 1935 for First National. Two years ago, at 47, he moved up to the presidency...