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...Davis '42, Peter L. Gill '43, John H. Powell '43, Malcolm J. Rowe '42, Lawrence K. Shaul '42, and Alan B. Shaw '44, Manager; and Minor Numerals to the following members of the freshman rifle team: Daniel J. Crowley, Jr., Louis Gerstley, 3d, Nathaniel C. Nash, 4th, Manager; Guerdon H. Nelson, Albert C. Petite, and Irwin E. Spalding...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Insignia For Winter Sports Earned by 170 | 4/21/1942 | See Source »

...their qualifications as research men. Actually, if a man has any teaching ability to begin with, he had best smother it at once if he expects to linger here much more than a year. Promotions come not as a reward for conscientious or even brilliant teaching, but as a guerdon for advancing the cause of science...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AND BADLY TEACH | 4/25/1936 | See Source »

...near the end of the float, he pushed the post ahead, swam to the dock, climbed nimbly out, and hoisted up his prize. Secure from the angrily shouting crowd, he turned and politely doffed his hat three times, then proceeded across the float to the far side, dragging the guerdon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Act of Heroism Performed on Charles as Dare-Devil Rescues Goalpost From a Watery Grave | 10/22/1934 | See Source »

...found many phases of our social and legal system unsatisfactory, and has not hesitated to attack them. When this is formulated as a charge, one can only answer with deep gravity and with deeper contempt that it is perfectly true. But in another sense, there is a certain guerdon won by any liberal who incurs the enmity of the D. A. R. Professor Frankfurter will join a remarkably white company. Jane Adams, who was vulgar enough to feed starving immigrants and to educate them, achieved disrepute with the feminine Torquemadas, as did Mary Woolley and John Haynes Holmes. None...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LADIES ALL | 3/16/1933 | See Source »

Daniel Richard Crissinger had always been a Democrat, but now that a Republican "Stunner" was playing the biggest game of all, the least a "Chain Ganger" could do was change his politics for the time being. When "Stunner" Harding was elected President, he returned the guerdon of friendship, taking "Chain Ganger" Crissinger down to Washington to be Comptroller of the Currency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Crissinger | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

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