Word: youngest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nicholas medal of the New York Section of the American Chemical Society was awarded to Thomas Midgley, of the General Motors Research Corporation, Dayton, Ohio, for his work in reducing the detonation or " knock" in automobile engines. The inventor is 32 years old, the youngest recipient of the medal, which was established in 1903 for achievements in chemistry...
Gifford Pinchot, Governor of Pennsylvania: " My nephew, Harcourt Johnson, 26 years of age, is the youngest member of the British House of Commons. He was just elected at a by-election and defeated a member of Bonar Law's ministry for the seat...
Harcourt Johnson, nephew of Gifford Pinchot, and youngest member of the House of Commons...
Prince George, youngest son of King George V: "I underwent an operation to have my two little toes removed. I had been afflicted with 'hammer-toe'-a shortening of the tendons which causes the little toe to curl up and is very painful in walking and dancing, of which I am very fond...
This evening at 6.45 o'clock President C. C. Little '10, of the University of Maine, will speak on "Race Discrimination". President Little is the youngest college president in this country. He has certain new theories with regard to education which are in marked contrast to the old system, basing his principle on the business of teaching men to think for themselves, rather than to acquire a number of facts on the authority of his instructor...