Word: medals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philadelphia last week, famed Edwin Powell Hubble of California's Mt. Wilson Observatory-accepting the Franklin Institute's coveted medal for "extensive study of the nebulae, particularly those outside our galaxy, as a result of which: the dimensions of observed space have been greatly increased"-announced discovery of a fifth motion in which the man sitting before his fire unwittingly shares. This is a motion of the whole Milky Way relative to other star galaxies glimmering in the abysses of space...
...Lloyd McKim Garrison prize of $175 and a silver medal was won by Feltenstein for his poem "Flood and Low Water." Caughey received the Harvard Monthly prize of $50 for the student in an advanced English composition course showing the greatest literary promise...
...grey uniform of the Spanish Air Force, flanked by his usual mounted Moorish guards, El Caudillo took the salute from 1,500 Italians of the Littorio Legion, 5,000 Germans of the Condor Legion, 3,500 Spaniards. To 15 German and eight Italian aviators he awarded the Spanish military medal. In a speech characterized by Latin expansiveness, the Generalissimo predicted that Spain's present air strength will be "multiplied a hundred times in the future," added that "it must be prepared on a moment's notice to lift its wings to rebuild the empire and make Spain great...
...distinguished research in the science of metallurgy, Albert Sauveur, the late professor of Metallurgy and Metallography, was posthumously awarded the Elliott Cresson Medal by the Franklin Institute of the State of Penn...
...Elbel and Watty Dickerman have graduated from the ranks of last year's Yardling squad up to the Varsity. They are the cream of an abnormal crop, and their places on the first six are not absolutely secure at the present time. Elbel had a creditable 77 for his medal in his only Varsity match against Bowdoin, and he definitely has the inside track for the number five spot. Behind him is tall Watty Dickerman, ready to withstand the challenge of Lou Roewer and Bill Calfee...