Word: medalist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Listened to Vice President Dawes while he read an epistle from Congressional Medalist Lindbergh inviting each & every Senator to fly with him last week*.¶ Amended, passed and sent to the House the Norris resolution ordering the War Department to complete and operate the Government's $140,000,000 wartime power plants at Muscle Shoals, Ala., on the Tennessee River, and ordering the Department of Agriculture to experiment with making cheap nitrate fertilizers there, for sale at cost to farmers. ¶ Rejected by 39 votes to 29 the renomination of John Jacob Esch of Wisconsin to the Interstate Commerce...
...years ago that Walter J. Travis, a young man from Australia, became known as Golfer Travis in the U. S. In 1897 he showed promise. In 1898 he was runner-up in the national amateur championship, and again in 1899. In 1900 and 1901 he was medalist and winner of the national amateur. In 1902 he tied for second in the national open, and won the amateur medal a third time in succession. He was amateur champion again in 1903, and in 1904 did what no nonresident of the British Isles had ever done, won the British amateur championship...
Disregarding the superstition which dictates early disaster to the medalist, Mr. Voight proceeded to play through the tournament proper in form highly satisfactory to himself. In the finals he met Eugene Homans, 18, Englewood, N. J., schoolboy; triumphed, 4 and 2; added the name of Voight to the list of onetime caddies* who have made good...
Professor P. W. Bridgeman '04. Rumford medalist, and a physicist famous for his research in high pressure, is at present working on the viscosity of mercury but stated, when asked whether he had subjected any atoms to hydraulic compression that he had limited his activities in this field to pressure of many tons upon single metal crystals: At Yale, a pressure physicist has succeeded in making a fat square atom into a long thin atom by means of a pile driver, but the significance of his experiment has not thrilled the scientific world...
Theodore William Richards, Harvard '86, "foremost chemist in the U. S. university world," Nobel Laureate (1914), Davy medalist (1910), Faraday medalist (1911), Franklin, Gibbs and LeBlanc medalist, is still active at Harvard. Hammond Lamont was a classmate of Richards, himself distinguished in scholarship and undergraduate journalism...