Word: medals
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...Depression, shooting stars, drugs, Element No. 87, the universe and an abstruse geometrical concept christened Rac-these and other matters were discussed & debated last week by the National Academy of Sciences, meeting in New Haven, Conn. For the first time in its history the Academy awarded its Henry Draper medal for research in astronomical physics to a woman: Harvard's Dr. Annie Jump Cannon, for her compilation of the Draper Memorial Catalog of 225,000 stars classified according to their spectra. Small Dr. Cannon is still searching them out. The Academy then turned to: Sabre-toothed Tigerst on whom...
From California to Manhattan last week traveled a bald, smooth-faced prelate, potent in the Roman Catholic Church, to be handed a handsome bronze medal by a Jewish editor. He was Most Rt. Rev. Edward Joseph Hanna, 71, Archbishop of San Francisco, chairman of the administrative committee of the National Catholic Welfare Conference. Commissioner of Immigration in California since 1913. His State and city know him as an able, civic-minded man. His church knows him as a priest who, once suspected of modernism, may be the next U. S. cardinal. Less well known is the work which...
...down to 282 entries from 47 countries. Cotton Worker Powell won the British national prize of $5,000 and an additional class award of $500. He also won the grand prize of $10,000 and a cash award of $1,000. Beside the money he was given a gold medal and a silver statue of a female figure, draped, holding aloft an actual photographic lens...
...identity." Pilot Hink-.ler's excuse was the same as the Pacific flyers': that an advance telegram of introduction, requesting courtesy of state air fields, was not delivered. Forgiven and forgiving, Flyers Herndon & Pangborn went last week to the Japanese Consulate in Manhattan and received the White Medal of Merit of the Imperial Aviation Association. Unforgiven, Hinkler & plane were held at Fortaleza while fellow Britons appealed to the Ambassador at Rio de Janeiro...
...Roosevelt had a lust for war. To him most wars were just. Only "flubdubs and mollycoddles" opposed them. He worried himself half sick lest he miss "the fun" in Cuba and when he returned he clamored loudly for a Medal of Honor. Most thoughtful citizens were amazed that his foreign policy from 1901 to 1909 did not embroil the U. S. in hostilities. A thorough jingo, he nevertheless won the Nobel Peace Prize for his Russo-Japanese war settlement...