Word: gordon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...James Gordon Bennett Prize of $125, for the best essay on American domestic or foreign policy, was won by Robert D. Hill '42, of Wilmore, Ky, for an essay on "James Clark McReynolds, Prosecutor and Judge...
...Poet"; $200 to Howard G. Hageman '42, of Albany, N. Y., for an essay "The Development of Eros in the Pre-Socratics and in Plato"; $100 to Robert B. Broadwater '42, of Oakland, Md., for an essay "The Importance of Imagery in Henry James' Later Novels"; and $150 to Gordon M. Messing, fourth-year graduate student, of Chattanooga, Tenn., for a portion of his dissertation submitted for the degree of Ph.D. in Classical Philology...
...students elected were: Gordon Allen, Concord; Elisha Atkins, Belmont; Jonas A. Barish, Mount Vernon, N. Y.; Thomas W. Blazey, Euclid, O,; Eugene L. Bondy, New Rochelle, N. Y.; Jack E. Bronston. Plainfield, N. J.; Lindley J. Burton, Wayzaia, Minn.; John Cancian...
...inadequate rations were augmented by Karin Kachin, Burmese girl nurses who, under the direction of Major Gordon Seagrave, Burma-born mission doctor, picked berries and vegetables, made stews complementing the small rice diet. Our ofttimes drooping morale was also kept alive by these girls, all of whom were between the ages of 17 and 22, singing Christian hymns, ancient American jazz, as they marched barefoot downstream through heat-scorched thickets and over rocky trails toward India, always in higher spirits and better health than the male members of the party, to whom at the end of each day they gave...
Politesse. In Chicago, Gordon Sheehe (of Northwestern University's famed Traffic Safety Institute), mindful of the strain of wartime living, offered a new precept for traffic cops: "Officers must learn to disregard remarks made by the motorist due to his upset condition, must avoid argument and keep their tempers under control...