Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Atlantic City, Beatrice Shopp, 18 ("Miss Minnesota"), was named "Miss America of 1948," winning a $5,000 scholarship, a Nash car, and untold publicity. Her measurements: height, 5 ft. 9 in.; weight, 138 Ibs.; bust 37 in. Her talent: she played the vibraharp. Said "Bebe": "I am only a farm girl. I drive a tractor. I clean the chicken coops. I mix cement...
...better chapters could be taken from Hervey Allen's books. Since he went to Bermuda 21 years ago to research and write Anthony Adverse, Author Allen (who now lives in the U.S.) has gone on plowing the past behind a strong but long-winded team of scholarship and storytelling. Toward the Morning is the third big volume in a pentalogy that began with The Forest and the Fort (TIME, April...
...bore little resemblance to the homely soap-box-on-wheels, 149 helmeted youngsters crouched over their steering wheels and rolled earnestly downhill in the eleventh annual Ail-American Soap Box Derby before 65,000 spectators at Akron. Young Donald Strub, 13, rolled the fastest, won a four-year college scholarship...
...people of each aliyah may speak their own language for the first two years, after that are expected to switch to Hebrew.* A dead language, a language of scholarship and liturgy for centuries, Hebrew has been revived and made the official language of Israel. In earlier days, some of the old folks were shocked to hear Hebrew used in everyday speech. When a mother scolded, "Little Ittomar, blow your nose," in the tongue of the prophets, oldsters winced...
...trip had been the idea of an 18-year-old French boy named Jean-Marie LePargneur. He, like his fellow tourists, had spent a year at a U.S. school on an American Field Service scholarship. But he thought he ought to see more of the U.S. than just the school he went to in Beaver Dam, Wis. So did the A.F.S., but it didn't know where the money would come from. Jean-Marie replied, "I feel that anything is possible in the United States." Local civic groups put the students up, and Greyhound lent a bus; the entire...