Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Governor Sid McMath, was accused of attending Commonwealth College in the Ouachita Mountains. Commonwealth, which folded in 1940, was later branded a Communist-line school by the U.S. Department of Justice. Faubus admitted he had hitchhiked to the school from his Ozark home in 1935 to accept a proffered scholarship, spotted the Red danger signals after a few weeks, and hiked right back home. Cherry refused to let the matter drop, suggested Faubus was lying. Faubus fought back with a charge that Cherry was the tool of special business interests; he chortled happily when the Arkansas Power & Light Co. raised...
...know that the impetus came from a desire to 'promote the well-being of mankind throughout the world.' " ¶ That the foundations have an "internationalist" bias. "We find it puzzling to be called upon to defend what seems to us to be so obvious, that American scholarship should encompass other cultures and that educated Americans should know something about the world in which they live." ¶ That the foundations have placed too much emphasis on "empirical" studies and the social sciences. "The relation between empirical studies and fundamental or general principle is an intellectual issue which...
...played end on the Attleboro High School football team, and his snappy work at shortstop brought an offer of a scholarship to Dartmouth. Joe turned it down, decided instead to help out the family by reporting for the Attleboro Sun and playing semi-pro baseball for the town and local industrial teams...
...North Country clerk, Smith has been painting ever since he was a boy in primary school. After his two-year hitch of national service with the Royal Air Force signalmen, he moved to London to study on a government grant, later won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art. During a jobless period in 1952 before he began to teach at the Bath Academy of Art, he held his first one-man show in London. His subject matter, working-class domesticity, was as commonplace as his own name. The critics noted it with mild approval...
...Quezaltenango in 1913 of a Ladino mother and a moody Swiss immigrant druggist who failed in business, walked out on his family and later killed himself. Another Swiss in the town intervened with General Jorge Ubico, the country's all-powerful ruler, to get the blond youth a scholarship at the national military school. Quickwitted and lithely muscular, Arbenz played polo and boxed while pulling down the highest grades in the academy's history. But when school triumphs were over, he was just another impoverished subaltern with no special prospects...