Word: diploma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...half of the last 20 years in prison cells for impersonating federal officers, passing worthless checks, selling narcotics, defrauding hotels and practicing medicine without a license in several states. While serving time in Atlanta's Federal penitentiary in 1923, he had tried to get himself a fake medical diploma, failed...
...made it clear that the ultimate destination of every man is the armed forces and ended the ambiguity presented when the demand for a 10,000,000 man army was stacked up against the policy of deferring undergraduates because they were undergraduates. He ended all thoughts of a diploma before an induction notice except for those whose graduation is imminent. But the fog has not lifted--it has only diminished. The path and the destination are clear, the relative worth to the nation of a college graduate and a buck private are set, but the details are yet to emerge...
...Tsahai and her mother went out sometimes to tea, chatted politely, accepted as polite the thin-lipped smiles of Bath. Tsahai learned to accept her isolation with the dignity her father so frequently recommended. She enrolled in a London hospital for a nurse's training course, earned a diploma and was ready, when her father regained his kingdom, to return with...
Robert Abercrombie Lovett, 46, won the Navy Cross as a flyer in World War I before he got his diploma at Yale. Son of a noted lawyer and railroader, he married the boss's daughter first, then-after proving his ability with other firms-became a partner in the old banking house of Brown Bros. Harriman & Co. Called to Washington in 1940 as special assistant to Secretary Stimson, then made Assistant Secretary of War for Air, he found what he now fondly calls "a hell of a mess." To Bob Lovett, more than any other one man, goes credit...
...announced, it is gradually becoming clear that the acceleration is an insidious attempt to snare Mr. Right before he goes marching off to the South Seas. College girls have long suffered from the competition of working girls, who don't have to grow old while they wait for a diploma. If they had to hang around Cambridge for one or two years after the accelerated Harvard man graduated, the case would be nearly hopeless. The obvious solution was this feebly disguised attempt to race the draft board...