Word: medals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cause had been uncertain. Then Hideyo Noguchi, Japanese, famed biologist of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, revealed how he had caused the disease in his laboratory by using an evasive microorganism he had trapped in the blood of trachoma victims. The A. M. A. gave him a silver medal...
...Denmark) talked about her profession in Copenhagen, Denmark, to a huge audience including royalty and Annette Kellerman, aging Australian "diving Venus." King Christian X of Denmark commanded Mrs. Corson's presence at his palace, listened to her description of swimming the English Channel, handed her a gold medal. Said she upon emerging from the audience chamber: "I cried from sheer...
...expose of what the smart set do at Palm Beach. The most credible thing about it is the rumor that it was produced by the sons of the author, Mrs. Sarah Ellis Hyman, as a tribute to their mother. Electra. Actress Margaret Anglin lately received a gold medal for having "kept her work characteristically pure and noble in nature" (TIME, April 4). Last week she played the part of a Greek woman, Electra who, to avenge her father's death, spurs her brother on to slay their adulterous, murderous mother, Clytemnestra. Simultaneously, hard by Manhattan, a real U. S. adultress...
...Albert Jeremiah Beveridge, who last week died of heart disease in his Indianapolis home. He was buried in Crown Hill Cemetery, near the grave of James Whitcomb Riley. Onetime Senator Beveridge was famed as orator, author, statesman. While at De Pauw University he won an intercollegiate oratorical medal, awarded in another year to the late Senator Robert Marion LaFollette. Entering the Senate in 1899 he was an ardent Imperialist, supporting McKinley's "manifest doctrine" policy, advocating permanent retention of the Philippine Islands. He joined the Progressive Party in 1912, was chairman of the Roosevelt convention...
...Harvard University Press has been awarded the annual medal given by the American Institute of Graphic Arts for the best book printed in the year 1926, judged mainly for its treatment of typographical problems. The volume which won the prize is "A Book of Old Maps" by Fite and Freeman, and the award, which is one of the highest given in America for publishing, has been taken by the University Press three times in the last six years...