Word: medals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Cohn will receive the 1948 Theodore William Richards medal...
...Less Medal-Pinning. Though the appointment had been in the works for weeks, most Britons were taken somewhat by surprise. Sir Oliver and his wife are so little inclined to the social side of diplomacy that an acquaintance once remarked of their infrequent parties: "One always has to break the ice-and when one does, one finds a lot of very cold water underneath...
...with the inauguration of the Marshall Plan, His Majesty's Ambassador would be less concerned with the traditional medal-pinning and speechmaking of diplomacy, and more with the facts & figures of economic life which Inverchapel had neither the training nor the inclination to tackle. For that role, Sir Oliver fitted Britain's specifications...
...disease of the bladder caused by snail-borne parasites common in Egypt. In 1944, he infected himself with the parasites (TIME, Dec. 6, 1946). The experiment cost him his own health, but it gave science some valuable clues for controlling the disease. This week Dr. Barlow, 71, received the Medal of Merit from President Truman...
...bank and the runner of my skeleton-that's just enough." An inch more and he would have crashed. Six times he made the descent of Cresta Run's spine-tingling ice path, to win an upset victory and Italy's one Olympic gold medal.* Average time: 5:23.2 (average speed: 42 m.p.h...