Word: medals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Clarke Memorial Medal for 1946, one of Australia's leading scientific honors, has been awarded to Hubert Lyman Clark, associate professor of Zoology, emeritus, according to a letter received yesterday by the University...
...letter cited "the great interest Professor Clark has shown in Australian zoological problems" and said that he had "greatly advanced Australian scientific research." The Royal Society of New South Wales presented the medal...
...occupation medal last week went to Washington Newsman Nelson M. Shepard, 29 years late, for service with the Fifth Marines in World...
...most front-line troops agreed with Willie. They had their own jeering nicknames for the even cheaper noncombat awards. The Asiatic-Pacific Theater ribbon was the "malaria bar with atabrine clusters"; the pre-Pearl Harbor service medal was the "Lend-Lease cross...
...became an overseas gag that a WAC who had done nothing more than commute to & from the Pentagon could hardly miss at least three awards: the American Theater Campaign Ribbon, the Victory Medal, the Good Conduct Ribbon. Totals ran so high that the wartime U.S. could not afford the metal to strike the medals themselves, issued ribbons instead...