Word: medals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battle ship Massachusetts. (In those days Annapolis graduates served two years at sea before becoming ensigns.) Nineteen years later, in World War I, he commanded two divisions of U.S. submarines operating with the British out of bases in Ireland. For potting German subs he was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal...
...Commencement last June, he was the second man ever to be given the Alumni Medal for Service to Harvard. In presenting this honor to him Governor Saltonstall proudly asserted: "I am one of 144 who can actually call the Bishop 'uncle...
...assigned to ground communications. ∙∙ Peter Gerald Lehman, 24-year-old adopted son of New York's Governor Herbert Lehman, enlisted in the R.C.A.F. in Ottawa. The U.S. Army Air Corps had turned him down as a husband and father. ∙∙ Gertrude Lawrence turned down a medal the Finnish Government offered her for Finnish Relief Fund work, because Finland "is now the vassal of Nazi Germany." ∙∙Of wartime writing, Writer Somerset Maugham, 67, said: "I've reached the conviction that an author may do his country more good just by going on and writing...
...Marve" Barrett, replete with red, black, and yellow cross-flecked, post-Tattersall waistcoat, apple-green pants, and cross gaiters, blurted out, the advance announcement that the Advocate is planning to strike off a special medal in honor of the "actress" and to knit her a special cherry-red and battleship-grey Advocate cravat...
Cyclotron for Cancer. Winner of the Society's gold medal was Dr. John Hundale Lawrence of Berkeley, Calif., brother of Nobelman Ernest Orlando Lawrence, who splits atoms with a giant cyclotron. Brother John said last week that cyclotron bombardment can give any element the emanating qualities of radium. These radioactive elements, when swallowed in liquid form, have two great uses for medicine: 1) in minuscule amounts, they settle in specific organs for a brief time, then can be traced in their journey through the body, providing a clue to the process of growth and repair; 2) in larger doses...