Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Grayson Kirk, at long last received his scroll and the purple-trimmed hood of a doctor of laws...
Branch Rickey, chairman, Pittsburgh Pirates Doctor of Humanics
...winsome, talented eleven-year-old son David). The boy saw his mother killed by Sherman's troops and was literally struck dumb at the sight. He and his father are wandering northward through what the script calls Illinois-actually a spectacular piece of Utah scenery-looking for a doctor who can restore the boy's speech, when they run into a not-too-old maid (Olivia de Havilland) who has the right prescription : love...
Radcliffe will award 27 Doctor of Philosophy degrees this morning. Including the degrees granted at mid-years, the College has awarded 40 Ph.D.'s this year, comprising the largest number ever given in one year. The Annex will also award 60 Master of Arts degrees, one Master of Science, and 64 Master of Arts in Teaching...
Starting in 1920 as an aerial taxi service for ranchers deep in Australia's barren, blazing outback, Qantas built up a flying-doctor service, hauled emergency well parts, food and anything else settlers wanted. By the 1930s, Qantas had expanded, flying 14-passenger flying boats on a thrice-weekly service to London. But it was only after World War II, in which Qantas' Catalinas did everything from evacuating 24,000 wounded to dropping supplies to besieged Aussie troops, that the line joined the international big league...