Word: diploma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Success was no more than Joni expected. "When you work four years at college,'' she says, "and you finally got a diploma, are you shocked?" Instead of getting a diploma, "I got to know what people liked...
...Cleveland, Rio Grande's Basketballer Bevo Francis sank 54 points against Wilberforce (final score: 109-55), paced his team to its 39th straight victory this season. Winding up with an intercollegiate record of 1,954 points, the skinny freshman, who just got his delayed high-school diploma a month ago, announced: "Now I'm taking off to hit the books." ¶In Baton Rouge, with a splendid 13-under-par 275, Sammy Snead, back on the tournament trail, whipped the field by three strokes for the $10,000 Baton Rouge Open...
...black. When the war ended, it had little else on its books except an order for 1,200 Navy F8F Bearcats which was cut back drastically. President Leon A. Swir-bul, then executive vice president, gave every one of his 25,500 workers a friendly farewell and a diploma-like dismissal notice. Then he rehired the 3,500 men he wanted to keep permanently...
...Syria only eight years ago, a report that some women were going to remove their veils in public touched off a riot. Now, Syrian women who can show a primary-school diploma have the vote...
...full courses are required of all concentrators, but two of these may be in related fields. Courses in Anthropology, Biology, Economics, Government, History, Philosophy, and Psychology can count towards a diploma. But only one can be on a freshman level. Except for a thesis and a half course in statistics, honors requirements are no different from those of the regular concentrator. This year a new course, Social Sciences 122, was substituted for the old basic statistics course, Soc. Rel. 191a, and was not too well received. But since 122 was in an experimental stage, it should prove better...