Word: medals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lloyd McKim Garrison prize of $175 and a silver medal, for the best poem on any subject, to Peter R. Viereck...
...Villanova College last week went the Rev. Julius Arthur Nieuwland, Belgian-born professor of organic chemistry at Notre Dame, to receive the Mendel Medal as Catholic scientist-of-the-year for his researches on acetylene which led to the development of synthetic rubber (TIME, Nov. 16, 1931 et seq.). Before the ceremony a newshawk questioned the famed priest on another outgrowth of his researches, lewisite, only war gas deadlier than mustard gas. Said Father Nieuwland...
...himself a table. Twenty years later the company was incorporated with $500,000 capital, and the great period of Grand Rapids furniture began. The Eastern market was opened to Grand Rapids when a suite (a "suit" not a "sweet," in the furniture business) by Berkey won a gold medal at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876. After that, through the American Victorian, Eastlake, Mission and the Golden Oak periods, Berkey and Gay and the other firms which grew up around it built up Grand Rapids as a home of honest craftsmanship, if not of inspired design...
...distinguished services rendered to humanity," the National Institute of Social Sciences presented a gold medal to Banker J. P. Morgan. In return, he volunteered the Morgan formula for success: "Do your work; be honest; keep your word; help when you can; be fair...
...pleasant-faced matron arose to receive a coveted honor. Together with Financier J. Pierpont Morgan (see p. 40), President William Edwin Hall of the Boys' Clubs of America and Columbia's Nicholas Murray Butler, Dorothy Harrison Eustis was given the National Institute of Social Sciences' gold medal for "distinguished services to humanity." Thus recognized by a public body for the first time was a unique educator. Founder and moving spirit of "The Seeing Eye" at Morristown, N. J., Dorothy Eustis for six years has been teaching dogs to lead blind men, blind men to follow dogs...