Word: medals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed a House bill awarding the Medal of Honor to Richmond Pearson Hobson, U. S. N. retired, who sank the U. S. S. Merrimac to block the harbor of Santiago. Cuba, June 3, 1898; sent it to the President...
...easy. The Pinehurst golfers then tried a 6-in. cup, planned a tournament to see if the members liked it. Eight-inch cups were installed at the Cavalier Country Club, Virginia Beach; Riviera Golf Course, Miami; Palmaceia Course, near Tampa, Fla. Here the second annual Gasparilla 72-hole medal play for a guaranteed net $1,300 purse will be held next week in which experts who like the idea of the new cup will have a chance to try it. One entrant will be Wild Bill Mehlhorn, famed professional who last year gave up golf to teach bridge because...
...English, is chairman of the Dissertations in English Committee, and C. N. Jackson '98, Professor of Greek and Latin, is chairman of the Dissertations in Greek and Latin Committee. Every man to win a place in these competitions is awarded, in addition to the monetary prize, a bronze medal and a sheep skin decorated by an old engraving and signed by the President of the University...
Subject of this description last week was a solid young man with a pudgy serious face-James ("Jarring Jim") Bausch, who received the Sullivan Medal which the Amateur Athletic Union annually awards to that athlete "who . . . has done most during the year to advance the cause of sportsmanship." The voting, on a panel of ten U. S. athletes, was closer this year than when Bobby Jones won in 1930, not so close as when Barney Berlinger won by two votes over Helene Madison year ago. Second on the list, with 648 votes to Bausch's 687, was Pennsylvania...
...climax of the convention will be at the annual dinner, in which the Palaeontological Society and the Mineralogical Society will participate. At this time the Penrose Medal will be bestowed on Edward Oscar Ulrich of the U. S. Geological Survey. He is the fifth recipient of this award. The medal, made of gold, is awarded annually for outstanding research in the geological sciences...