Word: bachelor
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...persecution of Jews. Interned by the Japanese during the war, Blumenthal was 21 when he came to the U.S. in 1947 as a "displaced person." Within a week he had found a job as a shipping clerk for the National Biscuit Co. and nine years later had earned a bachelor's degree in business from the University of California at Berkeley and a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton. In a career mixing business and Government service, he became a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State (1961-63, during which time he sought out and thanked the official who had cleared...
...Smith moved to Detroit with his parents. His father got a new job with a parts supplier now known as the Bundy Corp. Young Smith went off to the University of Michigan during World War II, then spent two years in the Navy. He finished the work for his bachelor's degree in business administration at Ann Arbor in 1947, earned an M.B.A. there two years later and immediately joined GM's accounting department...
...adoptee of the Worthington family. Growing apples strikes Homer as better than the business of St. Cloud's: "What he loved about the life at Ocean View was how everything was of use and that everything was wanted." This Edenic state does not last for long. Wally, still a bachelor, goes off to fly a B-24 in World War II and is reported missing over Burma. Homer and Candy have come to love each other, as well as Wally. The result of their mutual grief and consolation is predictable. But what will they do if Wally is not dead...
...early twentieth century physicians were torn about how to deal with the infection. While the disease was erroneously thought to be communicable by non-sexual means as well as through intercourse, progressive reformers focused their attacks on foreign prostitutes in the cities and on immorality in all classes. Bachelor parties, once the site of last minute merry-making, became the object of criticism and fear and muckrakers took every opportunity to make the venereal problem "a subject of gossip...
...made it through your four years at Harvard, your Bachelor of Arts degree was waiting for you, as long as you met a few simple requirements. Although Harry Elkins Widener '07's ill-fated ride on the Titanic had not yet led his mother to urge the institution of the obligatory swimming test, degree candidate did have to fulfill the far simpler requirement of translating into Latin the Old and New Testaments--from their original Greek form...