Word: earned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Elder also criticized as "shocking" the present process for obtaining Ph.D. degrees. He proposed that the requirements for the doctorate be lowered, enabling students to earn their degrees in less time...
...maintained that in most fields students could take their general examinations at the end of three years of graduate work and could write their doctoral theses during their fifth year. At present, graduates in Humanities take from four to nine years to earn their degree, in Social Sciences from four to eight years, and in Natural Sciences about four years...
Football Was War. It was probably inevitable that O'Brien would become an athlete. His father, a former bush-league ballplayer good enough to earn a tryout with the 1926 Athletics, tried his best to steer his only son toward big-league baseball. But when Parry was not fooling around on the handy home-town beaches of Santa Monica, Calif., he was proving himself one of the best ends in the state on Santa Monica High's championship football team and toying with the 12-lb. shot at high-school meets. He decided to accept a football scholarship...
...prices they can charge to hold down living costs, nationalized railroads are expected to lose $234 million, coal mines $40 million, gas utility almost $16 million, electricity companies $14 million, Paris subway and bus lines almost $34 million. Exception is state-owned Air France, which is expected to earn...
...setting up L.C.A., Satenstein took his cue from the Boy Scouts. If youngsters will work and hike and study to earn Scout merit badges, why can't they be induced to read for similar rewards? To each of its chapters, L.C.A. sends free buttons, pins, banners and certificates. After reading four books, a pupil gets a plastic membership button. Six more books bring a bronze-coated honor pin, and eight more bring the gold-plated life membership button. L.C.A. makes no attempt to dictate what books are to be read, lets local teachers and librarians improvise on the basic...