Word: diploma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Awarded. To Dr. Alexis Carrel, 57, 1912 Nobel Prize winner, member of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research: $1,000 and the highly esteemed diploma given biennially for cancer research by Dr. Sofie A. Nordhoff-Jung, 64, assistant in gynecology at Georgetown University. Dr. Carrel has devised methods of growing living cells in glass flasks where he can take micro-cinemas of their life. Results have been fundamental revelations on cell physiology, normal and malignant...
There will be two talks at the conference on secondary education. The first will be on "The Meaning of Graduation in the Reorganized Secondary School," by Professor Bancroft Beatly '15. in which he will discuss the wide variations in requirements for a diploma in the different schools. Professor Beatly will go on to discuss the question of reorganization of the secondary schools in order to make graduation a definite thing, or else abandonment of our old ideas of what a secondary school diploma means...
...Voted. 1. That the Reverend President be desired to accept Gradum Doctoratus in Theologia, and that a Diploma be drawn up by the Corporation & presented...
...ostensibly intimate interview with Gangster Al Capone at Miami- which Capone promptly denied (TIME, July 28). But his friends insist that Capone talked as reported, with the stipulation that he would deny it to save his own face. Other Brundidge exploits: expose of the Midwest medical ''diploma mill" scandals of 1924; conviction in 1925 of Ray Renard ("The Fox") of the notorious Egan gang and the solution thereby of 22 murders. Also in 1925 he got a job as deckhand on a rumship plying between New Orleans and Havana, wrote thereafter a series of articles on liquor smuggling...
Youngest of the three is John M. Schiff, 26, tall grandson of Jacob Henry Schiff, who is credited with much of Kuhn, Loeb's rise to its present high position in international banking. Son Schiff received a diploma at Yale in 1925, went to Oxford. Later he worked for Bankers Trust Co., then for Missouri Pacific Railroad. He likes horses, entertains quietly on the big Schiff estate at Oyster...