Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...milk day to day in 30-below-zero weather isn't a real interesting thing to do with the rest of your life." A warmer clime beckoned in the form of Mississippi College, a Southern Baptist school in Clinton, Miss., where the Canadian won, of all things, a basketball scholarship and mostly rode the bench before graduating in 1967 with a bachelor's degree in physical education...
DIED. A.L. ROWSE, 93, authority on Elizabethan England and Shakespeare; in Cornwall, England. Known as much for his cranky self-assurance as for his scholarship, Rowse wrote scores of books, including a three-volume The Annotated Shakespeare. "This filthy 20th century," he once said. "I hate its guts...
...Dunn, the Air Force cadet, is one of few students who signed up for ROTC without receiving a scholarship...
Although Modi won a scholarship for medical school, which would have permitted free choice of an undergraduate major, he would have been required to serve eight years in the Air Force at the end of his medical residency...
...American Slang (A through G). Volume II (Random House; 736 pages; $65)--beginning with H, a euphemism for hell, and ending 10,000 definitions later at the letter O with Ozzie, an Australian--once again reflects Americans' ingenious talent for verbal invention as well as Lighter's indefatigable scholarship...