Word: medals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Albert L. Rabinovitz, '36, is winner of the medal of the Comite France-Amer-ique awarded to the successful contestant in an annual declamation in French...
...cold mist at Grunau, Washington University's eight-oared crew won the gold medal by half a length over Italy and Germany in a breath-taking finish. In Berlin German gymnasts swung, spun and rolled up the impressive winning total of 657,936 points. While the International Basketball Federation, meeting to see what could be done about making the game satisfactory for the 1940 Olympics at Tokyo, vetoed a proposal to limit the height of basketball players to 5 ft. 8 in., agreed on 6 ft. 3 in., the U. S. won the Olympic title, 19-t08 against Canada...
Into an Oklahoma City pawnshop stepped a pretty young woman to borrow money on a wedding ring, a gold medal, a gold football, a pin of Yale's famed Skull & Bones Society. Each was engraved: E. H. COY-YALE U. "Could it be Ted Coy, the Yale athlete?" ventured the pawnbroker. "Yes," said the girl, "I am his wife...
...even gone so far as to dress the Countess of Oxford and Asquith up as a corpse and snap her surrounded by the lilies and wax candles of Death. Maiden voyagers on the Queen Mary were informed this week that they can at last buy for $5 a medal commemorating that recordless event. Maiden voyagers on the record-breaker Normandie last year received medals free before landing...
...motor works the fly wheel up to a rim speed of 680 m.p.h. at which point the bump hits the metal sample a single blow, breaks it clean as a whistle. For his inventiveness as a tester, the assembled testers last week presented Mr. Mann with a gold medal...