Word: medals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...addition to working with ESP, Galbraith also served as administrator or consultant to several other government agencies, winning the Medal of Freedom for the Strategic Bombing Survey...
...Lateran Cross awarded Mr. Hearst was a simple medal, not an award from Pope Pius XII. Vatican sources said that Hearst's name had been mentioned for an award, but had been turned down...
...last week received the news of the honor conferred on him with hardly a flick of his huge, bushy white eyebrows. He announced he would go to Oslo in December to receive his Nobel Prize medal, diploma and check; a true Scotsman, he noted that the prize money (to be used "for peace") would be only $21,900, almost $10,000 less than what it would have been before devaluation...
...hybrids of Sargent and Whistler, and with them winning prizes and acclaim. With An Arrangement, a low-keyed study of a girl in shirtwaist and skirt kneeling on an oriental carpet, he pulled down the fattest plum the U.S. had to offer an artist, $1,500 and a gold medal for the best painting in the 1901 Carnegie International. Collectors began buying his conventional canvases, museums began displaying them...
...Quebec City's Laval University, where he earned his law degree, Louis' work prompted the rector to make a flat prediction: "Le petit St. Laurent ira loin [Little St. Laurent will go far]." He won the Governor General's Medal and was offered a Rhodes Scholarship. Strong-willed young Louis, with plans already made to practice law, turned down the scholarship, went to work for one of Quebec's leading lawyers...