Word: md
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard Monthly Prize of $40, "to that student in the most advanced course in English composition who shows greatest literary promise," was won by R. Bowden Broadwater '42, of Oakland, Md...
...Monroe Engel '42, of Mt. Vernon, N. Y., for an essay "Gerhard Manley Hopkins: Inscapist 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...
...altitude record (6,540 ft. in 1912), won the Mackay Trophy for the first use of wireless in military reconnaissance, became the first man to carry mail by air, and scared the pants off the wide-ranging horse cavalry of the day by flying 30 miles from College Park, Md. to Fort Meyer, Va. and back...
...Fort George G. Meade, Md., competing with three camp movies, Maurice Evans and Judith Anderson presented Macbeth, drew 1,000 soldier spectators, wound up with ten excited, claqueless curtain calls. When question cards were passed put, 900 of the spectators replied emphatically that they wanted more shows like Macbeth. Only complaint: "The seats are too hard...
Newbold R. Landon, Baltimore, Md.; Solomon B. Levine, Brookline; Paul T. Lowry, Price, Ut.; Joseph M. Miller, Brookline; Herbert A. Potash, Cambridge; Frederic G. Ranney, Jr., London, EngEng.; William A. Reed, Glasgow, Mont.; Donald M. Roynolds, Mauette, Wash.; John C. Robbins, Jr., Cloveland Heights, O.; Allan M. Sachs, New York City; Lowis N. Sandler, Verous, N. J.; Albert J. Smith, Indianapolis, Ind.; John J. Sepka, Elizabeth, N. J.; Edmund B. Spacth, Jr., Philadelphia...