Word: diploma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because both degrees will be awarded at the end of seven years, it is possible for a man to go to college for three years, attend the Law School for two more, and then, for either scholastic or financial reasons, leave school and never receive a diploma...
...funniest thing, though," he said "was a bunch of fellows in the Yard after graduation. They were so pied they could hardly walk. One of the soberer ones staggered up to me, pulled out his diploma case and said, "John, have a drink...
...last week received the news of the honor conferred on him with hardly a flick of his huge, bushy white eyebrows. He announced he would go to Oslo in December to receive his Nobel Prize medal, diploma and check; a true Scotsman, he noted that the prize money (to be used "for peace") would be only $21,900, almost $10,000 less than what it would have been before devaluation...
With a minimum of whoopdedo, as if it were the most natural thing in the world, the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis graduated it's first Negro. Conspicuous in the spread of crisp white uniforms at Dahlgren Hall, Ensign Wesley Anthony Brown, U.S.N., got his diploma, joyfully tossed his cap in the air with those of his 789 classmates. His mother, plump Mrs. Rosetta Brown, who had pressed pants to help him through high school, watched proudly from the galleries. Rear Admiral J. L. Holloway Jr., the Academy superintendent, greeted her at the June Week garden party. Brown...
...bright-eyed little Negro girl from Keyport, NJ. rolled into Manhattan with a high-school diploma in her hand, and an idea in her head that she would become a "high dramatic soprano." But the big time was hard to break into: Juanita Hall was 35 before she padded onto a Broadway stage as Bloody Mary, the betel-chewing Tonkinese mama in South Pacific (TIME, April 18) and stole a considerable piece of that smash hit from Mary Martin and Ezio Pinza...