Word: medals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed $2,500,000 Town Hall, hoped he would give a lecture or two in return. Last week Prizeman Ostberg returned to the U. S. for the first time in 41 years to lecture at Yale. Later in Washington he will receive from President Roosevelt the No. 1 gold medal of the American Institute of Architects. Said Prizeman Ostberg of U. S. buildings: "As I know of them from drawings they seem things of astonishing beauty." To all living "children and children's children'' of Hameln, Germany, went invitations to return for a summer-long observance...
...eight or ten. But that thought suggested sociological possibilities from which Dr. Rowntree and his biological friends shied. Two days later, Dr. Riddle told his story of the soft golden eggs. Into the eager-eared members of Manhattan's American Institute who gave him a gold medal for the occasion, he poured a rhapsody on thymovidin, his name for the thymic extract he used. "When," cried he, "these studies were made, the thymus which we all wear close to our hearts, was becoming regarded as an endocrine outlaw. Never have I stepped out upon lighter, more exhilarating air than...
...lecture, which is part of the Darwin Lectureship, will be delivered in Burlington House at the time when Dr. Shapley is awarded the gold medal of the London Royal Astronomical Society for his studies of the galaxy. Previous recipients of the medal were Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington and Dr. Albert Einstein...
...people realize that Bert Haines, for years coach of Freshman crews, received a medal for bravery in action in the Holy Land during the World War. Bert led a cavalry charge that General Allenby, in command of the forces that captured Jerusalem, described as "the bravest action...
...Komonen was asked if he would try again. Aloof and taciturn, he answered "Rata auki!" ("Clear the track!"). Last summer he won marathons at Washington and Toronto. Last week, before returning to the mine at Sudbury, he received a marathon winner's usual reward: a medal and a laurel wreath-presented to him by Boston's Mayor Frederick W. Mansfield...