Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Quando un doctor lega cinquanta milles a un schola...
...days after the student graduates (about six in ten get through), the government assigns him a job which he usually keeps for at least three years. Once this ordeal is over, a few students are allowed to take advanced work leading to a candidate degree or eventually to a doctorate. As in his undergraduate days, each student must defend his thesis in public, and many of these theses, says Expert DeWitt, are of high caliber. But the quality varies, largely because of pressure from the government for practical and applied research. "A dissertation for the doctor of science degree...
...with a fishing line to prove to the neighborhood small fry that she has been scalped by the Indians. The final episode in the book is funny, pathetic and brave. On his dying day Papa put on his boots and Mama would not let the attending doctor take them off because Papa always "wanted to die with his boots on." It's things like that that give the old West a good name...
...grounds that "We don't treat you here. It's the rules." She further refused to provide a temporary dressing, saying that the more the wound was touched, the more germs it would pick up. I walked to Stillman on her advice, where I was bandaged and, since no doctor was in attendance, given car fare to the Hygiene Building. About one half hour after the accident I received treatment in the form of two stitches...
...affecting. A sergeant on a liquor foray for his C.O. finds himself on the shifting front lines, but clings to his suitcase full of Tokay until a shell mixes his blood with the wine. A captain with a hopelessly shattered skull keeps repeating a meaningless word, "Bjeljogorsche, Bjeljogorsche." A doctor says, as if he himself were making better sense: "He's up for a court-martial. He crashed on his motorbike, and he wasn't wearing his steel helmet." One man clucks over his buddy's baby picture as they drive a lorry-load of Jews...