Word: diploma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week Major General William E. Kepner, 53, will finally get his diploma from Kokomo (Ind.) High School...
Possessed of a budding paunch and a brand new engineering diploma, young Braden set to work in his father's Chilean copper mine. He was 21 when he saw 19-year-old Maria Humeres del Solar in the box of a Santiago theater. By managing to marry her six months later he set something of a record in overcoming the restrictive protocol of Latin courtship, and the lack of a common language. (Both now speak excellent Spanish and English.) Two of Braden's handiest assets in Latin America have been his greying senora's charm and judgment...
Sarah Lawrence is entering its 18th year. To celebrate its coming of age, the small, progressive college in New York's suburban Bronxville, where girls in blue jeans carry the world on their shoulders, decided to drop its two-year diploma, emerged as a full four-year college, and hired a new president...
Seventeen year olds who will have finished their current college term by June 25 or who will have gained a high school diploma by that time are eligible as candidates and may appear before the Naval Aviation Cadet Selection Board at First Naval District headquarters, located at 150 Causeway Street in Boston...
...better, "because of my long service in the school system. I've worked for the board for 28 years and I know how they do things" (see above). He gets no salary as a board member, so will have to look for a job. Custodian Nagel boasts a diploma, acquired in 1937, from a Chicago school of massage and physiotherapy. In his spare time he has worked as a masseur in a Turkish bath on Gravois Avenue...