Word: medals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same evening a new award, the Silver Buffalo, was created? "for distinguished service to boyhood." The first recipient was Sir Robert Baden-Powell. It was also conferred on 20 others, some of them dead, who have given their services unstintedly to the Scout movement. Hereafter this medal will be awarded to not more than five men annually...
...influence of the New York World, which he founded, unmistakably persists in the grand literary prizes which Joseph Pulitzer established. So this year the gold medal for "most distinguished and meritorious service rendered by an American newspaper" was awarded to a brave, obscure journal, which had dared in Georgia to oppose the Ku Klux Klan, the antievolutionists, the lynchers. That paper was the Columbus, Ga., Enquirer...
...University Press has more books outered in the exhibit than any other press, and has hopes of again securing the medal which was in its possession for the first two years of the competition...
...alive (the reporter failed to note the record number); Zell Hart Deming of the Warren, Ohio, Tribune-Chronicle, "only publisher in the U. S. who does her own fruitcanning"; the ample Frank Rostock, who gripped in his hand, to help him fight down a craving for chocolate creams, a medal presented him by Albert of Belgium as thanks for taking a strong Allied stand in the Cincinnati Post in defiance of his many pro-German readers; John B. Perkins, whose Journal has nine editions daily in one of the country's largest butter-and-egg centres, Sioux City...
...eyesockets. No, there he was; he lay with his head on his quilt, his legs squirming pinkly on his pillow. Great-grandmother Messinger picked him up, carried him out, collapsed into the arms of Mr. Kronk. Last week the Twentieth Century Club of Goshen gave her a medal for heroism...