Word: howe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coat, Sir Stewart is back in the operating theaters and wards of St. George's Hospital. Stored away with King George's decoration is the Nettleship Medal for three years' original experimental work in ophthalmology. This June Sir Stewart will visit San Francisco to receive the Howe Medal, top U.S. decoration for ophthalmology...
...Pounds & Dozens. In Bennington, Vt., butter-&-eggless Evening Banner Editor Paul Howe headlined a new policy: subscriptions payable in butter & eggs...
While Canada's UNO delegates planned for peace in London, Reconstruction Minister Clarence Decatur Howe made a cautious hedge in Ottawa. Against the possibility that Canada might be caught short again as she was in 1939 (when tank regiments went overseas minus tanks), he added what he called "a fourth service" to the armed forces. Its title: Canadian Arsenals...
...University of British Columbia at Vancouver owes much of its existence to the sis-boom-ah of its galumphing student body. In 1922, fed up with government delays in providing permanent buildings, undergraduates marched eight miles to a wooded headland overlooking Howe Sound, heaved boulders into a cairn and started one of the handsomest campuses in North America. In subsequent years they have built a gymnasium, a playing field and stadium, a recreation hall...
...National Hockey League lead, with a fourth within easy swatting distance. Montreal's high-flying Canadiens, minus their star goalie, Bill Durnan (broken hand), squared off last week against Toronto, and got licked 5-to-4. Potent Detroit flattened the Boston Bruins, but lost capable Syd Howe (possible fractured rib) in the business of winning...