Word: medals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four of the best U. S. miniaturists showed their year's work. Outstanding was a clear, shining portrait of a cameo-featured young woman in a ruff collar, by last year's medal winner, Artemis Tavshanjian, 29-year-old U. S.-born Armenian. Last week's winner was Mabel Welch, for her painstaking profile of an old man. Margaret Foote Hawley offered a prim, pale portrait of Rosemary, wife of Poet Stephen Vincent Benét. Nearly everything in the show, marvelously smooth and glowing with flesh colors, was pretty enough to be enlarged for a popular...
...Discoverer Urey last week was awarded the Willard Gibbs medal, top U. S. chemical kudos, bestowed annually by the American Chemical Society on a scientist in any country "whose work has received world-wide recognition...
Awarded. To Lucy Langdon Williams Wilson, 69, progressive educator, principal of Philadelphia's Southern High School for girls: the Philadelphia award for conspicuous civil service (scroll, medal, $10,000). She is the first woman recipient since the award was founded in 1921 by the late Edward...
...annual Freshman squash tournament began yesterday at the University Squash Courts with 189 entries on the brackets. The winner of this annual event will be given a gold medal...
Awarded. To Arthur Edwin Kennelly, 72, Harvard and M. I. T. professor of electrical engineering famed for his pioneer description of the Kennelly-Heaviside layer (ionosphere in the upper atmosphere which presumably reflects radio waves): the Edison Medal, top electrical engineering award; by the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, in Manhattan...