Word: medals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...considered an impostor [TIME, March 16]. My polar attainment was recognized by such leading explorers and scientists as Roald Amundsen, discoverer of the South Pole, Otto Sverdrup, Director Lecointe of the Brussels Observatory, Captain Bernier of the Northwest Mounted Police, and Anthony Fiala. . . . The Danes have never withdrawn the medal and degree they conferred upon me for their belief in the fidelity of my work. Stielers Atlas, a work of such authority that it is found on the tables of all important mapmakers, recognizes my success. Recent writers on the subject-J. Gordon Hayes, Captain Thomas F. Hall and others...
Already a notable literary scholar, "J. E." Spingarn went on to further triumphs as a critic (Creative Criticism). Longtime president of the N. A. A. C. P., he annually awards the Spingarn Medal, highest honor a U.S. black man can receive. Major of infantry in the War, onetime Republican candidate for Congress, Spingarn now lives quietly "as a retired capitalist," grows clematis on his 1,000-acre estate in Dutchess County...
Arthur Casagrande, assistant professor of Civil Engineering, was awarded the Desmond FitsGerald Medal last night at the Boston Civil Engineers' meeting...
...capillaries. The manner in which capillary blood rises in those tubes has thrown a considerable light on how heart disease causes dropsy, how kidney diseases develop, how a bruised eye turns black & blue. For this information the College of Physicians gave Dr. Landis their best prize a gold medal...
...frozen and frightened in the presence of strangers and newshawks as was the onetime President of the U. S., the German mathematician now chuckles, gestures, jokes, smokes in public with considerable self-assurance. Last May Dr. Einstein made the short journey from Princeton to Philadelphia to receive the Franklin Medal of the Franklin Institute. A throng of scientists and dignitaries was assembled to hear what the medalist had to say. Einstein genially informed the chairman that he had nothing to say, that inspiration which he had awaited until the last moment had failed him. The chairman, much more embarrassed than...