Word: medals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will represent 340 individual contributions, showing a gain of approximately 10 per cent over the exhibition held last year at the same time. Only work published between January 1, 1930, and January 1, 1931, will be considered. Prizes will be given in four groups as follows: 1. A gold medal, for distinguished services to the advertising industry; 2. Five prizes of $1000 each, to be awarded to the most outstanding individual advertisements, the most effective in text, in headline, in typography, and in the combination of these three elements: 3. Four awards of $1000 each, for the most successful advertising...
...Principles of Mining (1909), used as a textbook in technical schools. He has lectured on engineering at Stanford and Columbia Universities. With his wife, in 1912 he translated from Latin the first book ever written (published 1556) on mining, de Re Metallica, for which he was given a medal by U. S. mining engineers...
...witch-hazel branch and foretell a man's way of life by the stars present at his birth. But last week in Manhattan, U. S. chemists apologized for having laughed at people who predict the weather by feelings in their feet. They awarded the William H. Nichols Medal of the American Chemical Society to Dr. John Arthur Wilson, 40, consulting chemist of Milwaukee. Wis. Dr. Wilson was judged worthy of the medal (given for outstanding achievement in colloid chemistry) for his seven years' study of leather. He had found that the dimensions of leather are affected by changes...
...Hart, 53, Commander of the Control force of the U. S. Fleet; to be Superintendent of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md.; succeeding Rear Admiral Samuel Shelburne Robison. retiring. During the World War Admiral Hart commanded Submarine Divisions 4 and 5 in European waters, was awarded a Distinguished Service Medal. Since 1923 he has commanded the Mississippi, served as supervisor of New York Harbor, commanded the Submarine Divisions of the Battle Fleet. He became a Rear Admiral in October 1929, Commander of the Control Force...
Honored. Richard B. Harrison, Negro actor (The Lord, in The Green Pastures) ; with the Spingarn Medal for 1930, awarded for the greatest Negro accomplishment...