Word: diploma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...radiotelephone operator may go as to become chief operator in charge of a terminal station or to be a functional or technical staff assistant at the headquarters of the Communications Department. The main requirements for this job are a high school diploma and a second class radiotelephone operator's license. Starting salary for junior radio operators is $263 per month. Before completion of six months' service, employees must pass qualifying tests for a radio operator's position, with salary of $288 per month. The maximum salary in this field is $363 a month...
...this bag of oats. The implacable, carefully photographed beauty of the badlands stands behind the film every moment, grim as an open grave. The four leading actors do excellent work. Actress Parker is spirited and warm as the heroine. John Forsythe is subtle and easy, a sort of walking diploma from V.M.I. William Demarest manages to wear a week's grizzle, chaw the plug and prospect for laughs without sounding too much like Gabby Hayes. And William Holden again suggests that he is the most versatile leading man in Hollywood. In the last year he has played, and played...
...anything can happen in that long a time. Most enrolless study for only one year, and take courses that they missed in college, or if they did not go to college, courses that they would have liked to take. The only prerequisite for admission is a high school diploma and a valid reason to study under the Extension program. And there is practically no limit to the number of students, except in a few language courses where individual instruction is paramount...
Harvard must weigh the probable advantages of both systems. The three-year plan might reduce the number of books that some students re-read, and allow a few men who cannot qualify for scholarships to win a Harvard diploma. But keeping the four-year rule will continue to mean that all Harvard graduates have received a common grounding in the liberal arts on which to build. And a Harvard degree will still represent a standard opportunity to have developed the intellectual and emotional maturity that comes through education...
...outstanding services in the struggle against warmongers and for the strengthening of peace." Baritone Paul Robeson received the International Stalin Peace Prize for 1952 (complete with diploma showing a picture of Joe Stalin) in ceremonies in Manhattan. The award, good for $25,000 in cash, would have been tendered in Moscow if the State Department had let Robeson make the journey. The substitute presentation of what Communist Author Howard Fast called "the highest award which the human race can bestow upon one of its members" was described by the Daily Worker: ". . . There was a hush as the medal, with Stalin...