Word: medals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, has just received by way of the French embassy the Prix Janssen, the gold medal of the Societe Astronomique de France, which was awarded to him this summer. The Prix Janssen was named for a distinguished French astronomer of the nineteenth century whose outstanding discovery was that of the method of observing solar prominences without total solar eclipses, a contribution of great importance in respect to studies...
...even more gallant than that of his Chancellor. There is in the Austrian Army a decoration that could exist in no other country. Marie Antoinette's smart mother the Empress Maria Theresa realized that the Habsburg Archdukes who commanded her divisions were not military geniuses. She established a medal, open to anyone, from general to corporal, who in wartime should carry out a maneuver against the orders of his superiors and should succeed. The number of aspirants is limited by the assurance that should they fail they face a firing squad. On the tunic of Major Fey hangs...
...these original discoveries the American Chemical Society last week gave Nobel Laureate Willstatter of Munich, a bearded, amiable, urbane Jew, its very best salute-the Willard Gibbs Medal...
Salute to Promise. The Willard Gibbs Medal which Professor Willstatter received is a salute to achievement. Chemistry's salute to promise is the Langmuir Prize ($1,000) for able investigators under 31. Recipient last week was Dr. Frank Harold Spedding, stocky, blond chemistry instructor at the University of California, for spectroscopic studies of solid materials...
...occurred to me that the agents and editors employed directly by the House of Morgan would have dared to come into the front and taken such responsibility as they have; but it is even more surprising as this open letter discloses how Capone could qualify himself as the gold medal holder of the House of Morgan and immediately be released from the penitentiary with a reward added for services if he seized the opportunity, and is given the customary treatment heretofore applied to Morgan and his medal holders...