Word: medals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fencing tournament held in Vienna as part of the Emperor Franz Joseph's Jubilee. When he was 17, he was unbeatable. He has won five Olympic championships. During the War he served as captain in the Italian cavalry. The king gave him the Blue Ribbon of the valor medal and made him a Knight. He was an amateur until 1920 when the Jockey Club of Buenos Aires offered him more than $1,000 a month to teach fencing to its members and their sons. After three years he left Buenos Aires because he was bored there. For exhibitions...
Versatile Childe Hassam enjoys beach scenes and many other things. It would require a half-column to list the prizes he has won, beginning with a bronze medal at the Paris Exposition of 1892, and the museums in which he is represented...
...first came into prominence when he was made Alien Property Custodian. One of his acts was to confiscate German chemical patents and sell them to the Chemical Foundation (of which he is head) for the fostering of the U. S. chemical industry. In 1919 he was awarded the Priestley medal "for being the greatest lay patron of chemistry." Later, criminal proceedings were started against him for the sale of the German patents, but he was exonerated...
Married. Dorothy Binney Putnam, divorced wife of Publisher George Palmer Putnam (TIME, Dec. 30); and Captain Frank Monroe Upton, Wartime winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor, an officer of the S. S. President Roosevelt during the Antinoe rescue; at Fort Pierce...
...contests will be conducted under the supervision of Samborski and Coach Peroy. All Freshmen are eligible to compete and a medal will be awarded the winner. Entries will close this afternoon at 5 o'clock...