Word: golds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...latter type are the Harvard Advertising Awards offered since 1923 by Edward W. Bok. The most highly coveted of these is the Gold Medal for Distinguished Contemporary Service, which was presented to James H. McGraw, in recognition of a lifetime spent in endeavor to raise the standards of American advertising. His speech of acceptance, it is worthy of note, dealt with the functions and economic values of the industry as well as its responsibilities...
...dinner in honor of the winners of the 1927 Harvard advertising awards held at the Harvard Business School last night, the annual prizes founded in 1923 by Edward W. Bok were announced. J. H. McGraw, president of the McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, was awarded the gold medal for distinguished contemporary services to advertising in recognition of his lifelong service in the raising of higher standards of advertising in the business press of the country. A total of $14,000 in prizes was awarded "for distinguished individual advertisements and advertising campaigns...
...delvers opened the small gold sarcophagi and found, as they knew they would find, that one had contained TutankhAmen's liver & gall bladder, another, his lungs & heart, another, his stomach & large intestine, the fourth his small intestine. They were the young king's last relics, removed at his mummification...
President B. L. Belt reminded stockholders how expensive it was to introduce a new product (Old Gold cigarets) to the smoking public...
...years in larger cities where James O'Neill was acting. After that, school days under Catholic and later conventional preparatory schoolmasters. Then a year at Princeton, whence he was fired for a "prank." Then an inordinate mixture of oddities. He worked in a mail order firm in Manhattan; went gold prospecting to Honduras; shipped as a common sailor to South American ports; was destitute, "on the beach," for a considerable period in Buenos Aires; played in vaudeville; became a reporter in New London, Conn. These years hacked his health to pieces and it was in a Connecticut sanitarium, defeating...