Word: medals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lieutenant Commander Byrd, looking weather-beaten, stood before a cheering assemblage of ambassadors and ministers of many nations, Supreme Court justices, cabinet members, congressmen, scientists and high officers of the Army and Navy. He received the welcome and congratulations of President Coolidge, who also presented him with a gold medal from the National Geographic Society...
Squating beside every green, milling through the crowds that followed the players, were U. S. reporters, looking for drama. They were disappointed. The drama in any medal tournament is the drama of endurance; a man's opponent is the game of golf. If Hagen had been playing a match with Jones, then niblicks would have spurted epigrams, drivers snapped dialogue, sparkling marivaudage would have clicked in every putt. . . . But Jones was not playing Hagen. He was playing golf...
...points and was the winner. C. H. Corless, Abe's English compatriot, was second with 161 points. Rugger Bill Melhorn of Chicago was third with 160 points. Other scores: Walter Hagen 148 points, Archie Compston 134, Joe Kirkwood 128. "Par" in points was 228. Comparison of the medal (stroke) scores shed but little light on the relative merits of "guid auld" and "scientific" golf. Mitchell equaled the course record of 69; Melhorn...
...commanding officers for three air stations; also the nucleus of the Northern Bombing Group. Submarines were bombed, airplanes shot down by "Unit" members; Dave Ingalls became naval ace, with four planes and a balloon to his credit; Di Gates, Commander of an air-station, was recommended for the Congressional medal of honor for heroism. Three* of the "Unit" were killed-two in action. Destroyers were named for these two. Wherever there was naval aviation, there was a "Yale Unit" man. Admiral Sims said: "The great aircraft force which was ultimately assembled in Europe had its beginning in a small group...
...examination in which Wyzanski was declared a winner was the final in the first of the New York Times' Current Events Contest, which will be an annual fixture in American colleges hereafter. Each of the contestants who took part won the prize of $250 and a gold medal in the local contest held in his university. Wyzanski carried off a gold medal, a preliminary prize of $250 and a final grand prize...