Word: medals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and director of the Harvard College Observatory, has been awarded the American Society of Arts and Sciences' medal for great scientific achievement, according to an announcement made yesterday by Walter Russell, president of the Society. Dr. William Crocker of the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research was awarded the Society's second medal...
...converted Navy submarine with which Explorer Sir George Hubert Wil- kins expects to prowl like a polliwog under the Arctic ice next summer, cruised last week from its shipyard at Camden, N. J. to New York Harbor. Sir Hubert, with a fresh medal in his kit,* walked the gangplank to a Brooklyn dock and stood by while the curious eyed his beard and submarine...
...Presented last week by the Geographical Society of Philadelphia. So numerous are his medals that he lumps them thus: Patron's Medal, 1928, by Royal Geographical Society, for work in Polar regions, culminating in (1928) flight from Point Barrow to Spitsbergen; awarded gold medals by American, Belgian, Danish, Cuban Geographical Societies (the Cuban society last week gave a medal to Georges Claude, French scientist who experimentally generates electricity from the heat differences between the surface and bottom waters of Matanzas Bay); silver medals by German Geographical Society and City of Berlin; gold medal by Norwegian and French Aeronautical Societies...
...appeared on the frontpage of the Journal Post an editorial headed "Techy Jim": ". . . If the former Senator were younger, the Journal Post would feel like firing George Cauthen . . . for not breaking his camera over his assailant's head. As it is, we think Photographer Cauthen deserves a medal for . . . self restraint and dignity...
...awarded in recognition of Dr. Wheeler's outstanding work in the study of insects all over the world, and particularly for his studies of the habits and psychology of the ant group. The Harvard entomologist is the author of "Social Life Among the Insects." In April the bronze medal and honorarium will be presented at the Academy...