Word: medals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Masters' Medal...
...Atlantic City last week, the exclusive (225 members) Association of American Physicians took signal note of Dr. DuBois' work by awarding him the Kober Medal. Before it hands out its only award, the Association thinks not twice but many times: among past winners have been such famed medical men as George Minot, William Welch and Theobald Smith...
...appointee, who was born in Hoboken and educated at Columbia, is the author of "Configurations of Culture Growth," a study of civilizations after the manner of Spengler and Toynbee, which has been widely acclaimed since its publication two years ago. He was recently awarded the Viking Medal for the most distinguished contributions to the study of anthropology during the last decade, and has also done extensive work in archaeology and linguistics...
Frederick V. Hunt Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Sciences, was one of four prominent scientists awarded a Presidential Medal for Merit for secret war work, the United States Navy announced last night...
...citation accompanying the medal did not disclose the precise nature of Professor Hunt's contribution, but stated that it concerned work on submarine and anti-submarine devices. Secrecy has been maintained, the citation explained, because the work is of "continuing importance to the security of the country...