Word: medals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entered the University of Ghent as its youngest student, graduated in 1882 summa cum laude, promptly became an assistant professor of chemistry. He got a medal and a traveling scholarship, but also got married (to his senior professor's daughter), emigrated to the U. S. and went to work for a photographic supply manufacturer. Then he started his own consulting practice, invented a quick-action photographic printing paper called Velox, organized Nepera Chemical Co. to manufacture it. George Eastman of Eastman Kodak bought...
...wind of gale proportions sent scores upward, and low medal honors for the day were shared by Yale's brilliant Ed Meister and his partner Page with 74's. Meister edged Captain Ace Cordingley 2-1 and paired with Page for a best ball victory in the first foursome. Page gave the Blue boys their third point by beating Watty Dickerman...
Major-General Frederick F. Russell, professor of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, emeritus, was honored yesterday for his outstanding medical services when the Association of American Physicians, the country's most exclusive medical group, decided to award him its 1940 Kober medal...
Prizeman. Among the recipients of prizes and other honors awarded by the Academy was none other than forthright FBI Chief John Edgar Hoover, nemesis of kidnappers, hero of gangbusters, night club celebrity, target of Ogpu-frightened critics. Mr. Hoover got the Academy's Public Welfare Medal, for applying scientific methods to crime detection. Said he handsomely: "I accept this medal not for myself alone but also as a tribute to my associates...
Richard L. Wetnberg will get a medal for taking extempore on "What efforts compatible with isolation should the United States take to maintain peace?", while the debaters came home empty-handed, since they lost the tossup with Bates deciding which of the tieing schools should keep the trophy...