Word: medals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Baxter '96, and Associate Professor William Chase Greene '11, Professor Wilson, and Professor Gulick will compose the meetings committee. Professors Harlow Sharpley, director of the University Observatory, Professor Percy Williams Bridgman '04, Professor Frederick A. Saunders of the Jefferson Physical laboratory, and Professor Kennelly are members of the Rumford medal committee. George Russell Agassiz '84, Overseer, will serve on the anditing committee. Professor Reid Hunt, and Professor Baxter have been appointed to the C. M. Warren committee...
...mail rate from 10 cents per half-ounce to 5 cents. ¶ Passed a resolution calling for an inquiry into the diversion of commerce from U. S. to Canadian ports. ¶ Passed bills to decorate the crew of the Atlantic-crossing NC4 and to strike a special medal for Fliers Chamberlin...
...Washington, the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency is considering a bill to pin another medal on the insomniac inventor. To this committee, one Mrs. Clara Louise Leslie, research collaborator, of Washington, D. C., protested: "It [the bill] would be a slap in the face and at the reputation of every honest inventor whose invention Mr. Edison has claimed for himself. In my studies I found that the microphone, the continuous current transformer and the gramophone, the modern disc talking machine, were invented by Berliner, and that motion pictures were the invention of C. Francis Jenkins. But regardless of patent...
...Manhattan, next week, Thomas Alva Edison will receive the Gold Medal for Science from the Society of Arts and Sciences...
...geevs me great, great pleasure to make wis ze great American 'enemy' shake hend," laughed Captain Koehl, waving to the medal-bedecked flag-bearer of the Legion, and sighing with relief as the elevator doors slammed...