Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Departing from his prepared speech on world affairs to make the scholarship offer. Adenauer explained his gratitude to America...
...scholarship, he is an effective and devoted pastor. When the bandit Giuliano (TIME, Sept. 12, 1949 et seq.) terrorized Ruffini's Palermo diocese so that hardly anyone dared go into the hills, Cardinal Ruffini left Palermo on foot and unaccompanied, walked up the stony hills toward Giuliano's lair and cried: "Giuliano, Giuliano, you are killing my flock, you are ruining their fields . . . Come and talk to me." After several hours waiting in the sun, when Giuliano still did not come, the cardinal gathered his vestments about him and cried aloud: "Giuliano. I am your archbishop...
Today marks the closing date for undergraduate applications for Student Council scholarship grants, varying from $20 to $40. The grants are awarded on the basis of financial need, regardless of scholastic standing...
...more or less always wanted to go into show business. I was in high school plays. Someone dared me to see Katherine Dunham for an audition, so I did it for fun on the dare, but it turned out not to be so funny because I got a complete scholarship and I had never done much of any dancing before...
...voted most popular man in his class, and graduated with honors. One professor recalls: "He was the smartest agriculture student I've ever had." Finally married in 1926, Flora and Ezra set off in a model T pickup truck for Iowa State College, where he had won a scholarship. They pieced out their diet with free samples of hickory squash and buttermilk from the agricultural school; within a year Benson had his master's degree, and went back to run the family farm (now owned by a brother...