Word: diploma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After four years of such investing, Joey collected her due interest: an accredited high-school diploma. She also landed a job as one of the paid, part-time staff members of the Star, the community news magazine. Now, Joey hopes to study shorthand, bookkeeping and journalism. She also hopes to achieve her greatest ambition: permanent residence in the U.S. and U.S. citizenship...
...Officials of New Orleans' giant Charity Hospital were embarrassed when an intern recognized "Dr. Jack Lang," who had been on the staff five weeks as a psychiatric resident, as no psychiatrist but Paul Pitts, 22, recently discharged Air Force medical corpsman. Pitts faces trial for forging a diploma and impersonating a doctor...
Ralph Pratt Hoagland, Jr., unlike most graduating seniors, didn't have to worry about a job when he picked up his diploma today; his main job was getting enough Commencement tickets...
...misunderstood team. By long usage, it has been shorn of its rich meaning and puffed up into one of those empty abstractions which multiply confusion and distort thought. Who can say what it means to the people who are so zealous for their children's attaining a college diploma, or to those to whom Education of the People is society's cure-all? Vocational training, perhaps, or the ability to quote Homer or recollect statistics from so-and-so's history of the U.S. manganese industry, or "soundness" on current problems, or contacts and prestige...
Obviously, this is no field for anyone wanting little more than a cocktail knowledge of his concentration. Even non-honors men must purchase their shorn degrees with a 10,000 word essay, also due March 1st. Anyone graduating with a History and Literature diploma has spent several hours wondering if it was worth the effort, and the usual answer is an overwhelming...