Word: medals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...statement on p. 56 of TIME for Feb. 25 that the Progress Medal of the Royal Photographic Society has been awarded to only two U.S. citizens is not correct...
...Progress Medal was awarded to F. E. Ives of Philadelphia for his work in three-color photography; and in 1923, to N. E. Luboschez, who, although he was living in England at the time, was an American citizen. If these names are added to those of Alfred Stieglitz and George Eastman, it has thus been awarded to four American citizens. In addition to these, in 1928 the medal was awarded to Dr. S. E. Sheppard, who, although a British subject, has carried on the greater part of the researches for which the medal was awarded in Rochester...
According to arrangements which had been made before the contest Abdian will receive the entire prize of $250 offered by the Times besides a New York Times medal. Honorable mention was given to Harry Herbert Kleinman '30, of Hartford, Connecticut, and to Robert Keen Lamb ocC, of Washington...
...tough-knuckled fighters of the old Marine school. Each came to eminence through battle smoke and war fury. Both are Southerners. For each the Corps has a large, profane, unsentimental affection. Both are burdensomely decorated for bravery in action, Gen. Neville having the edge with a Congressional Medal of Honor for the cool way he seized Vera Cruz with the Second Regiment...
Prizes, however, were awarded to work in fresh, distinctive modes. Robert Henri, bright, sketchy painter of children whose eyes would pop at dolls and toy engines, whose lips would pucker wetly at lollypops, won the Temple Gold Medal for painting with his fluffy, serious Wee Woman. A lean, angular and sour ancient in a dark figured dress, called Madame du Tarte, won for Richard Lahey the Carol Beck Medal for portraiture. Bruce Moore's Black Panther, in savage, undulating stride, won the George D. Widener Memorial Gold Medal for sculpture...