Word: medals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...extremely complex nature whose exact composition has never been accurately ascertained. At present the two leading theories as to its composition are those of Hans Fischer of Munich, and of President Conant. Mr. Conant's theory was advanced in 1932; and for his research he was awarded two medals, the William H. Nichols Medal and the Charles F. Chandler Medal...
John Edgar Hoover, handsome young chief of the Department of Justice's Bureau of Investigation, declined a medal awarded him by the United States Flag Association as a prime force for law enforcement. Said Sleuth Hoover: "We feel fully repaid when our endeavors are successful and inure to the public good...
Gregory Paul Baxter, Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry, has been presented the Theodore William Richards Medal, awarded biennially by the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society for "outstanding eminence in the field of pure chemistry." The award is particularly appropriate, because Professor Baxter's work has been in the field in which the late Professor Richards distinguished himself and won the Nobel Prize...
...managed to attract attention by producing a highly colored glassware almost indistinguishable from the then secretly prepared Bohemian glass. When Corning Glass Works took over Steuben in 1918, Glassmaker Carder remained as head of the smaller division. Last week in Cincinnati he was presented with the Charles Fergus Binns medal for excellence in design by the American Ceramic Society...
...Spitz of N. Y. U. and Walter Marty of Fresno State College tied for the high jump championship at 6 ft. 7½ in. Then the bar was set at 6 ft. 8⅞ in. for an exhibition. Marty cleared it on his fourth try. He got a gold medal but no credit for a world's record; his jump was not made in competition. Marty's consolation if he needed any was the fact that last fortnight he broke his own world record with a jump of 6 ft. ¼ in. Spitz, the only other highjumper...