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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Paintings in Little | 2/19/1934 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Deuterium v. Diplogen | 2/19/1934 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 19, 1934 | 2/19/1934 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Squash Tournament | 2/13/1934 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 5, 1934 | 2/5/1934 | See Source »

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