Word: medals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...each of these seven heroes President Roosevelt last week handed the nation's highest award for airmail pilots-the Air Mail Flyers' Medal of Honor...
...Joseph Ruddy is a huge, bald, splotchy man, the greatest water poloist in history, an Olympic swimmer, master of 26 sports, rescuer of some 150 lives, winner of a Congressional Medal for Life Saving and 1,000 assorted athletic cups, badges, plaques. He is the father of five expert swimmers and water poloists, one of whom, Joseph Jr., captained an Annapolis team in 1931. At the New York Athletic Club, where Ruddy is coach of the nation's championship water polo team (TIME, April i), members boast that no one has yet equaled Joe Ruddy's record...
Sandy Valley by Clyde Singer, a landscape in the manner of John Steuart Curry in which an incredibly red sun was setting behind an equally red farmhouse while a railway train let out a plume of smoke in the middle distance. It won the $500 Norman Wait Harris Medal. Gallery visitors greeted with relief that ably-painted veteran of a dozen U. S. art shows, Eugene Speicher's portrait of a mustached blacksmith, Red Moore (TIME, April...
...metaphosphate story was narrated to the 50 sightseers last week by the Melon Institute's Director Edward Ray Weidlem, 48, co-author of Science in Action, who next week will receive the Chemical Industry Medal for 1935. They saw samples of Columbian Carbon Co's carbon black for lacquers, which, ground to particles .000001 centimetre in diameter, is so black that it makes other blacks look brown. If any of them had neglected to shave before breakfast, he could have accepted the free-shave offer of the research man for Schick Dry Shaver, Inc who shaves twelve...
...Pistol League in its monthly matches and ended with an average of fifth place among the eleven teams competing. In the final match, in May, 1935, the Harvard team took third place, the highest it has ever reached among the league teams. Arthur D. Foster '35, received the League Medal as Team High Individual...