Word: honorers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After having served as Major in the United States Army, he was attached as liaison officer to the French general staff and was decorated with the cross of the Legion of Honor...
...newest book, Mario and the Magician, which he wrote last summer in a wicker bath chair on the brim of the Baltic. "I find it quite possible," he gossiped, "to write a novelette while surrounded by noisy folks on a beach." Solemnly: "I am sincerely delighted with this great honor. I welcome it the more because I have always been profoundly stirred by Scandinavian literature...
...present Duc was graduated by the French Naval Academy. He retired to specialize in physics, returned to the navy at the outbreak of the War, in which he won the tiny but coveted rosette of the Legion of Honor for his invention of a wireless receiver for submerged submarines. Last week's prize of $46,299 was awarded for his theory of wave mechanics in the problem of atomic constituion. Roughly and as elaborated by other researches, the Due de Broglie's theory is that matter consists of a series of waves as well as of corpuscles...
Respectfully conscious, too, are Chicagoans that it is a civic honor to be on the university's board of trustees, now 29 strong. Besides such generous, longtime trustees as Julius Rosenwald, Martin Antoine Ryerson and Chairman Swift, who all live within a few blocks of the campus, and such illustrious out-of-towners as Charles Evans Hughes of Manhattan, George Otis Smith of the U. S. Geological Survey in Washington and Steelman Cyrus Stephen Eaton of Cleveland (elected last week), the board includes new-risen leaders of business and finance like President Sewell Lee Avery of U. S. Gypsum...
...Wood, Sophomore quarterback, hockey and baseball star. Davis Cup Team nominee, president of his class, and honor man in his studies. Out of the 25 passes he threw in the Michigan game only one was intercepted. Today he will direct the Crimson aerial attack in its crucial test against a well-informed and well-instructed Yale defense...