Word: cheyney
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Black colleges are also more likely to provide vital encouragement to marginal students. Sulayman Clark, 35, was on the verge of dropping out of mostly white Temple University when he transferred to 152-year-old Cheyney University in Cheyney, Pa. Bolstered by attentive professors, he not only graduated but went on to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard. "If Cheyney did not exist, my career would have been over," he says...
...actress of insouciant charm and wit who graced vaudeville in the pre-World War I era, silent films and later talkies, but mostly the Broadway stage, where she specialized from 1917 to 1954 in the highly varnished comedies of bad manners and good breeding (The Last of Mrs. Cheyney, 1925; Biography, 1932; Ode to Liberty, 1934) in which the characters misbehave in venomous, perfectly timed epigrams; in San Francisco...