Word: medaled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...monotony of the spectacle provided by small boys coasting down a hill, saw the final heat. Robert Ballard, 12, of White Plains, N. Y., got the checkered flag as he rolled across the finish line first to win the U. S. championship, a silver trophy, a diamond-set gold medal and a four-year scholarship to any State university he might select. He promptly announced that he would go to the University of Minnesota. Runner-up Kenneth Richardson, 12, of Detroit and John Sigmans, 12, of Bethlehem, Pa., who came in third, each won a Chevrolet coach which they...
...cars casualties were down to 5,996. The Duluth, Missabe & Northern R.R. in Minnesota operated almost 7,000 trains of more than 70 cars over a period in which not a man was killed, a performance for which the D. M. & N. received the Harriman Silver Medal Award...
...infallible is Sam Liebowitz's smartness. Trying a case before mixed Italians and Irish he was trying to show up a policeman. "What's that bulge in your hip pocket, a black-jack?" "No, it's a handkerchief and a medal," said the policeman, pulling out the handkerchief. "Oh, so you're a hero, eh?" snapped Liebowitz. "No," said the cop, pulling out a religious medal, "a Roman Catholic...
...well-recognized caste in Croatia under the gay regime of Austria's Emperor Franz Joseph. His upper-class connections enabled him to study art at the Royal Academy of Zagreb and then at the Brussels Academy of Fine Arts, which awarded him its first prize and gold medal for composition in the year Franz Joseph's nephew Franz Ferdinand happened to get fatefully shot, not in Croatia, but in Serbia. Artist Vanka kept on painting, after the War became a professor of painting at Zagreb's Academy. In 1926 he met Margaret Stetten, the attractive daughter...
...nearby Burnside course, over which the qualifying rounds were played, are no harder going than any seaside course with tight fairways and pit-pocked greens. Horton Smith of Missouri, whom a slump had kept out of the Ryder Cup play, stroked out two smooth 695 to win the medal...