Word: medals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Poor Richard Club in Philadelphia, celebrating the 228th birthday of Benjamin Franklin, President Roosevelt sent a message praising his namesake's sanity. The club thereupon awarded its annual Poor Richard Achievement Medal, in absentia, to Walt Disney on whose behalf it was accepted by Eddie Cantor...
...without limiting their extension. But it is best to reckon without a great increase in endowment revenue. Mr. Conant is choosing between two practical alternatives. Oxford and Cambridge, in following one path, have hampered their development along the other; the state universities of America, on the reverse of the medal, have faced educational difficulties of their own. Whether Harvard, armed with great endowments and a splendid intellectual record, can strike in the end an unique mean, an aristocracy of scholarship that is financially democratic, rests in the laps of God and the founders of endowments. In making his temporary choice...
...Quentyn who might have pistoled him went down to death and glory. Home again as a hero, Alastair found himself friends with Katherine. Like a sensible Chappell he decided to marry a soldier's career. He had no room for regrets when the Queen herself gave him a medal, and looking at his empty sleeve, said, "We are grateful, Mr. Chappell...
...Harlow Shapley, Paine professor of practical astronomy, and director of the Harvard College Observatory, received yesterday the gold medal of the London Royal Astronomical Society for his studies of the galaxy. England has no higher honor for astronomers than this reward which Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington and Dr. Albert Einstein have won in the past...
...medal includes the privilege to deliver a lecture in May at the presentation in Burlington House and an appointment to the George Darwin lectureship...