Word: diploma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small fire in his private plane as it flew over Colombia), reached a new high in Argentina. He and his wife were honor guests at a four-hour luncheon at the Buenos Aires country place of Juan Perón. After lunch, Juan gave Bertie a medal, a diploma and a well-phrased pat on the back: "This medal ... is presented to honest men. I award it to you as an honest man who directs honest institutions which report the news of Argentina and Latin America honestly and accurately...
...colleges, screened them, and selected for training 16 promising specimens ranging in age from 18 to 67. To these men he gave an intensive, 12-hour, two-day course in all the problems of being a Santa Claus, including make-up and psychological approach. Then, giving each a handsome diploma, Josko sent them into the world--local department stores that had signed up for his genuine, reliable, gilt-edged St. Nicks...
Shaggy Henry Wallace registered to vote in stylish Westchester County, N.Y. (he gave his occupation as poultry farmer), but forgot to bring along his high-school diploma, and had to take a literacy test. His score...
...behave," Chicago teachers used to warn Negro pupils, "I'll send you to Dunbar." Ramshackle Dunbar Trade School on Chicago's South Side was little better than a reform school. Nobody preened himself on winning a Dunbar diploma, or stood much chance of landing a job with one. Then Clifford J. Campbell came along...
...week's end, the registrar's office noted what it hoped was not the beginning of a trend: a coed wanted her degree postponed until next winter, so her diploma would be signed by President Eisenhower...