Word: medals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...annual exhibition and gives prizes for the best photographs by its 23,500 employes. To Rochester last week for the ninth time went the favorite prints of 500 Kodak employes in 21 countries. A distinguished jury walked solemnly down long galleries of exhibits, conferred, then awarded the Eastman Gold Medal to Ralph J. Fallert of Chicago for a misty study of coal elevators and chimneys entitled "Towers of Industry." The Sulzer cup for the best portrait went to another Chicagoan, John W. Zarley for a picture of a smiling gentleman in a derby sucking a pipe...
...crashed 600 mi. at sea, while trying to take off newsreels of King Alexander's assassination (TIME, Oct. 22). For that rescue Captain Fried, standing last week for the last time in the shadow of the Washington's funnels, received his company's distinguished service gold medal from Vice President P. V. G. Mitchell...
...March 1933 the American Chemical Society, of which he was 1919 president, gave Dr. Bancroft its prized Nichols Medal "for his work on the application of colloid chemistry to physiological problems, particularly insanity, in which he has advanced scientific proof that dementia and drug addiction are curable chemically...
...infant, for it has great vigor, makes plenty of noise, costs a lot of money, is much talked about and is referred to as 'hopeful.' " This brawling infant's importance was recognized last week by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers which awarded its 1934 medal to Willis Haviland Carrier, accredited founder of the air-conditioning industry...
...faithfully recorded on a permanent trophy in each sport, individual awards can be done away with. The natural instinct for competion, the desire to gain recognition for the House should be more potent inducements to participation in the inter-House program than the hope of receiving an individual medal. Such trinkets as the jewelers of the Square offer each fall to catch the eye of the callow Freshman have no firmly established place in the life of the Harvard man. They are baubles born to blush unseen, to waste their brilliance in the bureau drawer. As such, they might...