Word: medals
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DIED. MARSHALL WAYNE, 87, Olympic diver; in Hendersonville, N.C. At the 1936 Berlin Games, Wayne won a gold medal and a silver medal by beating his German opponents, earning Hitler's displeasure...
Several years thereafter, he was appointed to a prestigious endowed chair and later won the John Bates Clark medal. In the past, recipients of the medal have often gone on to win the Nobel Prize...
...WINNERS] ROSA PARKS Gets congressional Gold Medal at last; gives barnstorming speech. Talk about the roaring...
...will insure the [Radcliffe] Institute is a womanly place, and so I give her to you and to her I give the robes of office," Wilson said of Dunn at the ceremony, which also included speeches by University President Neil L. Rudenstine and Radcliffe Medal Recipient Johnetta B. Cole...
During the luncheon, the RCAA also presented the Radcliffe Medal--awarded "to an individual whose life and work have had a significant impact on society"--to Cole, who is herself a former college president...