Word: diploma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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composed of 96 round cards divided into eight suits, the Hindustani pack is called "Gunja-Kha," which means "relieving scalp." The suits bear such names as Ghulam, or slave, end Burart, or royal diploma, and the king, by keeping his hands busy playing cards, was unable to scratch his head or beard, keeping baldness at a minimum...
Trade Tool. In Memphis, Emett J. Ragland defended himself in court by exhibiting his diploma from Lumpkins Barber College, was nevertheless fined $50 for carrying a razor...
...survey reveals that the average business and non-technical students can pull down a $200 to $235 monthly pay-check as soon as he gets his diploma, while before the war he would have had to settle...
...last year at New Jersey Law College, Ozzie organized a band to help pay his way. By the time he got his diploma (1930), he had decided that his eight-piece hand looked a lot bigger than a lawyer's shingle. In a year he was making more money than a Supreme Court justice...
...terrible that self-respect forced him to try again. In the next plays, he was better. By the time he played Matt in the drama club's Anna Christie, he knew what he wanted. He could not even wait five days to pick up his diploma, he was in such a hurry to reach Broadway...