Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Certain scholarships can be given only to students of a specified religion. The Mary Saltonstall scholarships established in 1730 were to be given only to "dissenters...
Many scholarships give preference to members of a certain family, or direct descendants of a certain person. In such cases applicants must prove their membership in the family or trace their ancestry back to this individual...
...Harvard Club scholarships, and many of the National Scholarships stipulate that the holder must be a resident of a given area. Sometimes this area is a region as inclusive as the South, often a certain state or country, but sometimes the area is narrowed down to include only a certain town or "the region within 20 miles of the State House...
...Hair of 'is 'ead." The notebooks show that the old butler's best tipper was a certain Captain Davenport. Housemaid Edie learns why the Captain was sometimes so generous. Going into Mrs. Jack's bedroom as usual one morning, when old Mrs. Tennant is absent from the castle, Edie draws back the curtains and the sun streams in. "She saw a quick stir beside the curls under which Mrs. Jack's head lay asleep, she caught sight of someone else's hair as well . . . retreating beneath the silk sheets." Dumfounded, Edie scuttles...
Charles Munch made his debut as permanent conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra this weekend, and effectively demolished the illusions of certain musical cynics who held Koussevitzky and the B. S. O. synonomous, and claimed neither could exist without the other...