Word: medals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pipes of Industry. Professor Fink, 51, claims to be the "originator of the drawn tungsten filament'' for lamps.* Another scientist given the kudos is General Electric's Dr. William David Coolidge, 59. In 1914 the American Academy of Arts & Sciences gave Dr. Coolidge its prized Rumford Medal for the ''invention and applications of ductile tungsten." Dr. Coolidge also was in last week's news. Director of General Electric's research laboratory since 1900 and vice president in charge of research since 1928 has been Dr. Willis Rodney Whitney, who once averred that...
...from Western College for Women (Oxford, Ohio) for being mother of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's President Karl Taylor Compton, Nobel Prizeman Arthur Holly Compton of Chicago and Economist Wilson Martindale Compton; Dr. Roberts Andrews Millikan (cosmic ray opponent of Arthur Holly Compton), by the Outstanding Service medal of the Roosevelt Memorial Association; Journalist Walter Lippmann, by appointment as Chancellor of Union College (Schenectady, N. Y.); Author Stephen Vincent Benét, by $500 first prize in the O. Henry Memorial Prize for a story, "An End to Dreams''; Social Worker Jane Addams (Chicago's Hull...
...able female composers; in total obscurity, of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan. A mother of two & widowed at 27, she turned to composing, wrote more than 125 compositions for piano & orchestra, played before Italy's Queen Margherita at Rome's Costanzi, won a gold medal at the International Exposition in Florence, ended her career giving piano lessons in Manhattan's Greenwich Village...
Because of the handicap system, which is governed by previous performance, every entrant will have an equal chance of sharing in the five prizes to be awarded the winners. The first prize is a gold medal, the second, a silver, and three awards to the next men finishing...
...Richard Bedford Bennett, honorary doctorates of law by the University of the State of New York;* to blind Helen Keller, the Pictorial Review $5,000 Achievement Prize for completing the $1,000,000 fund campaign for the American Foundation for the Blind; to Steelman Charles M. Schwab, the Melchett medal of the English Institute of Engineers: to Columbia's President Nicholas Murray Butler, the Goethe medal and a certificate signed by President von Hindenburg...