Word: medals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...experiment with light rays in a pipe-rectangle to check the Einstein relativity theory (TIME, Aug. 11, 1924); Professor Niels Bohr's (University of Copenhagen) atomic investigations in the infra-red region of the spectrum (TIME, Feb. 4, 1924), for which he last week received the Barnard Gold Medal from Columbia University...
...Freyberg. One night some years ago, a British officer painted his body black and slipped over a dread-naught's side into the moiling waters of the Dardanelles. He swam ashore, penetrated the Turkish lines, lit flares to guide a landing-party. For this exploit he received a medal from his Government. When Author Sir James Barrie, some time later, was delivering a now celebrated address before St. Andrews University, he referred to this incident as an example of incomparable courage, turned to bow to Colonel Freyberg who sat behind him on the platform...
Returned. For "excellent behavior" displayed in fishing his two companions, Lieutenant Dietrichsen and Mechanic Omdahl, out of polar pools into which they slipped while walking over floes from their crippled seaplane to rejoin Explorer Amundsen, the Cabinet Council of Norway last week conferred a gold medal on Pilot Lincoln Ellsworth, only U.S. member of the Amundsen polar flight which returned in safety a fortnight ago to Oslo (TIME, July...
...Newberry Medal, established by one Frederic G. Melcher of Manhattan and awarded annually by the Association "for the most distinguished contribution to literature for children," was presented to Charles J. Finger, author-explorer-sheepraiser of Fayetteville, Ark., for his Talcs from Silver Lands...
Last week, he granted many audiences to the pilgrims who came to Rome for the Holy Year celebrations. To James A. Flaherty, Supreme Knight of Columbus, His Holiness gave a special medal usually reserved for Bishops, saying that he gave it because Mr. Flaherty was "the Bishop of the Knights of Columbus." After thanking the Knights for their presence at Rome, the Pope said: "I am well acquainted with what you do in the United States and Canada and elsewhere when the cause of the Church and humanity is in question. Wherever there is a soul in danger or human...