Word: medals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...approved by a committee of the Department of English. The competition for this prize is open to all undergraduates, who must file the subject of their poem at Warren House 3 not later than March 1st. Manuscripts should be submitted not later than April 1. $125 and a silver medal...
...firm of Holabird & Root of Chicago went a medal last week because they had designed Chicago's Palmolive office building, a severe and splendid tower, gleaming in the sun by day, arc-lit by night. It was the Gold Medal of Honor of New York's Architectural League,* most coveted prize in the profession, awarded last week during the League's annual exhibition...
...York Chapter of American Institute of Architects used to award a gold medal at the Architectural League show. Since 1914 it has been awarded directly by the Chapter. This year it went to Dan Everett Waid, Manhattan architect, "for distinguished work and high professional standing...
Edison. Most prized award of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers is the Edison gold medal. Its recipients have included George Westinghouse. Alexander Graham Bell, Nikola Tesla, Michael Idvorsky Pupin, Robert Andrews Millikan. Last week in Manhattan it was given to tall, grey-haired Charles Felton Scott, 65, native Ohioan, electrical engineering professor in Yale University. In the field of power transmission his work has been noteworthy; professionally renowned is he for the Scott transformer which changes two-phase to three-phase alternating current...
Gary. Elmer Ambrose Sperry, 69, of Brooklyn, may well have a medal named for him someday. A prolific inventor (gyrocompass, gyrostabilizer, airplane "Mecaviator," superpower searchlights, airway beacons), he holds over 400 patents, some 12 important awards and decorations. Last week, honoring his method of nondestructive detection of flaws in steel rails and bars, he was first to receive the American Iron & Steel Institute Medal, given by the Institute in memory of its late Founder-President Elbert Henry Gary...