Word: medals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first Herbert Hoover Gold Medal for "civic and humanitarian work" was last week presented to President Herbert Hoover, engineer, by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Said President Hoover addressing his professional colleagues: "In solving problems of government we have need for a large leavening of the engineering knowledge and engineering attitude of mind. . . . They are unsolvable without the fundamental engineers' approach to truth...
...Eugene Homans, who tied Bobby Jones for the qualifying medal in the last amateur championship: the North & South Amateur Championship at Pinehurst, N. C., beating C. Ross Somerville of London, Ontario, after chipping into the cup on the 34th and driving eight feet from the flag on the next hole, finishing with an eagle and a birdie, 3 up & I to play...
...Dominion Observatory at Victoria, B. C. On April 9 Plaskett received the Rumford Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Boston, at which time he addressed the Academy on the subject of the Gases in Interstellar space. Dr. Plaskett has also been awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal As tronomical Society for his researches in the rolation of the Galaxy. His son is Professor H. H. Plaskett of the Harvard Observatory staff. Dr. Paul ten Bruggencate, professor of Astrophysics in the University of Greifawald, Germany, is the second visiting astronomer. He will conduct a series...
...Maureen Orcutt: the Women's Mid-South medal play golf tournament at Southern Pines, N. C., beating National Champion Glenna Collett by three strokes...
...Washington, Dr. Eckener received the medal of the National Geographic Society, "for his work in furthering the progress of airships, and to commemorate the first around-the-world flight of the Graf Zeppelin." In 42 years, only ten men before Eckener were awarded this medal: Peary, Amundsen, Shackleton, Bartlett, Goethals, Stefansson, Gilbert, Bennett, Lindbergh, Byrd...