Word: diploma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After "working real hard at it," Jack Dempsey passed his real estate brokers' exam in California with a grade of 85, took his diploma, then hung out a gilt-lettered shingle in Beverly Hills and waited for the customers...
...school associations, all operating through an executive committee of 14 educators. That committee meets in Manhattan, decides policy, and appoints the "examiners" to make up its tests. Five times a year the tests go out to some 500 testing centers. Any student anywhere, with or without a high-school diploma, can apply to take them...
...soon placed. Said Superintendent Miriam Watnick of Brooklyn Women's Hospital: "He was a very good doctor and a nice person. He had a marvelous personality and impressed all of us at the hospital. I can't imagine him being a fake . . . He had a medical diploma and references. What could we do?" Nobody, it seemed, had had the time or taken the trouble to check MacLeod's references...
...relevant to Harvard too. The University had just graduated its last wartime class; you could look at the little numeral after a student's name, now, and tell when he would get his diploma. But in a year or so, the neat sequence of classes would be Sheffield and broken and there was the uncomfortable possibility that if the class numerals were juggled long enough uniforms would reappear in the Yard, and companies would again stand at attention before Sever Hall and march to class. Of course, if things got very much worse there was an equal possibility that Sever...
...gerian government sent him abroad for further study. Since then he has won a Diploma of Fine Art from the University of London, has been made a fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute, and has become more European than African in his approach...