Word: medals
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Culturally the hant monde of Lima is on a par with the similar aristocracy of Madrid, Rome and Paris. The other side of the medal must show the appalling backwardness and almost total illiteracy of the masses, a huge majority of which are Indians. Probably the great, feudal families of Peru are in no hurry to pump education or ideas into toilers who work so cheaply. Chief of the aristocratic oligarchs is Augusto B. Leguia, who is now relishing his third term as President of Peru. Twenty years ago Señor Leguia was called "The Bantam Roosevelt of Peru...
Silence came upon the auditorium crowd. Dr. Herbert Eugene Ives, physicist for the Bell Telephone Laboratories and one of the inventors of television, nervously approached Professor Michelson and in a timid-seeming voice presented him with the Optical Society's Frederick Ives Medal. Dr. Ives gave the Society money for the biennial presentation of the medal in memory of his father, the late Frederick Eugene Ives, inventor of photoengraving...
...President Coolidge awarded Miss Berry the Roosevelt Memorial Association medal "For Distinguished Service" (TIME, May 25, 1925). Last week. Miss Berry received yet another honor and reward. She won the annual prize of $5,000 given by Pictorial Review magazine to the U. S. woman who has made the greatest contribution to art, letters, science or the social sciences. None doubted that Miss Berry would immediately turn the $5,000 to profit for her school...
Georges Scapini French War hero typifying for France the same courageous spirit which Sergeant York winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor typifies for America is to lecture in the Harvard Union at 8 o'clock this evening...
...finish like a wounded fly, no one wished Hayes to have the prize. The Italian flag went up; the U. S. protest was allowed at 8 in the evening. British newspapers scored the decision of the committee; the Queen of England gave each of the runners a bronze medal, and the king from nearby Windsor sent each one an oak wreath...