Word: medals
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...varying sizes, shapes, shades and significance are the medals with which nations honor their military heroes, living and dead. No. 1 Medal of the British Empire is the bronze, red-ribboned Victoria Cross, bearing the Royal Crest and the inscription FOR VALOUR. Since the close of the Crimean War in 1856, 1,155 persons have won it "for some signal act of valour or devotion . . . in the presence of the enemy." During the World War, when other medals were being passed out with feverish generosity, the V.C. went to only 633 fighters, proudly maintained its high prestige...
Greatest honor the U. S. can bestow is the Congressional Medal of Honor, a five-pointed gold star, swinging from a bar on which is engraved VALOR, below a blue ribbon dotted with 13 white stars. To prod privates, ineligible for other decorations, on to harder fighting, Congress during the second year of the Civil War passed an act providing for 2,000 medals "to such ... as shall most distinguish themselves by their gallantry in action and other soldierlike qualities during the present insurrection." The first medals were bestowed by Abraham Lincoln on four Yankee sergeants and two privates...
...traffic laws. Edward's new motorcyclists will be listed as King's Home Service Messengers and are not to be confused with the King's Messengers attached to the Foreign Office. As his badge of office a King's Messenger carries a small silver medal engraved with. a running greyhound, which is supposedly potent enough to commandeer a British warship in an emergency. At the present time there are only three King's Messengers: Major Custance, Lieut. Colonel Porter, and Acting Messenger Wilton. Week after week, they take a number of red morocco boxes filled...
Meeting in New Orleans last week, the National Tuberculosis Association, a high-powered money-collecting organization whose publicity has done much to reduce tuberculosis deaths in the U. S. to 70,000 a year, announced that it was giving its Trudeau Medal to Dr. Edward William Archibald, Montreal lung surgeon. He had been recommended for this honor by Dr. Lawrason Brown of Saranac Lake, N. Y., centre for tuberculosis treatment. But to very few of the U. S, anti-tuberculosis enthusiasts in New Orleans last week was able Dr. Archibald more than a name...
...heroic and extraordinary achievements in Arctic and Antarctic exploration 1925-26," President Roosevelt presented Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth with the National Geographic Society's 13th Hubbard Medal. Introduced at his lecture following the presentation as "a world discoverer who exemplifies the finest traditions of science, modesty, resource and valor," Explorer Ellsworth trumpeted: "The most important incident of my trip across Antarctica [TIME, Jan. 27] was the raising of the Stars & Stripes in that territory of 350,000 square miles of vast untamed land, the last unclaimed territory on earth...