Word: medaled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hannan last week was the figure of a walking boy and the motto "a la Sainte Terre" (to the Holy Earth). "I designed the medal years ago," finished Dr. Finley. "It was when I was Commissioner of Education for the State of New York. I visited a home for incorrigible boys about 30 miles from my office at Albany. I talked to them about walking and promised a medal to the first boy who would walk to my office. One day six of them arrived. I had the medals made, walked the 30 miles to the school and delivered them...
...started an hour ahead of the rest of the field, stopped after the first ten miles. Winner, when the favorite, John Kelley, weakened two miles from the finish, was a 24-year-old Quebec snowshoe champion named Walter Young, whose prizes were a laurel wreath, a silver cup, a medal...
...native of St. Louis, young Miller is one of the outstanding prospects on the Yardling team in years. He won all his seven bouts against Yale, a rare feat, and then went down to the Freshman Intercollegiates in New York and won a Clemens medal for his excellence...
...biography as Montrose, Sir Walter Scott, Julius Caesar, Oliver Cromwell, A History of the Great War, novels such as Greenmantle, Mr. Standfast and best-selling The Thirty-Nine Steps. *At which one of the guests was Katharine Cornell, to whom Mrs. Roosevelt presented the Chi Omega "Achievement Award" (medal...
When, in the last round of an important medal tournament which he has had a good chance to win, a young golfer gets to the tenth tee and learns that he is four strokes behind the leader, two things can happen. The news can disrupt his game completely or it can make him play superlatively well. This was the alternative which, last week at Augusta, Ga., faced 25-year-old Byron Nelson, whose most noteworthy previous achievement as a golf professional was winning New York's Metropolitan Open Championship last summer...