Word: diploma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...robustious Canadian dollar was a symbol of Canada's growing strength, and the diploma for her industrial coming-of-age. In twelve years, Canada has undergone the most impressive industrial development of any nation in the world, a surge of industry and prosperity that Wall Street's conservative investment firm of Lehman Bros, calls "the biggest business story of this decade." Since 1939, Canada...
Nuclear Physicist Enrico Perm!, 1938 Nobel Prize winner, who started the first controlled nuclear chain reaction, dropped in at the University of Rochester, picked up a Doctor of Science degree, his eighth honorary diploma...
...program that included abolition of bowl games and out of season practice. He offered a three-point program of his own: 1.) setting up a standard set of entrance requirements which are honestly enforced; 2.) enforcement of a curriculum that will ensure that a boy graduates with a "respectable diploma"; 3.) a setup by which financial aid to the needy student is administered by an agency designated by the college president and trustees. He deprecated the attacks on college football, adding that "the temptation to suggest that some of these gentlemen who would reform us might perform a far better...
Jordan said colleges could eliminate the abuses by honestly-enforced entrance requirements, curricula for all students that will bring a "respectable diploma," and financial aid to athletes administered through the colleges...
...Lubbock advertising produced good results, especially when a framed picture of the Last Supper was offered as a "diploma." A series of twelve ads brought 168 requests for the course, resulted in 17 known conversions in about a year. In 1948, the Paulists tried the experiment on a larger scale in Boston...