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Word: bachelor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Department of Welfare for having accepted too much relief. But there was no injunction to stop his hundreds of students from using their titles and degrees for whatever purposes suited them-the man who paid $1.25 to become a "missionary," the one who paid $65 for a "Bachelor of Theosophy" degree, or the one who gave $100 to call himself "Doctor of Divinity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Ad Valorem . . . | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...handsome Shah (full title: His Imperial Majesty Mohamed Reza Pahlevi, Shahinshah of Iran), a lean, sad-eyed young (30) monarch, might have been born & bred for the guinea hen & champagne circuit. He was a bachelor (having divorced beauteous Princess Fawzia of Egypt in 1948), had a gratifyingly deferential way with the ladies, had a democratic fondness for crowds and machinery, and seemed genuinely moved by his reception...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Coast to Coast on a Red Carpet | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Handsome, auto-racing Prince Rainier III, 26, mounted the throne of the 370-acre kingdom of Monaco, which recently installed dice tables in its Monte Carlo casino to shake more dollars out of crap-shooting Americans. The youthful bachelor ruler succeeded his grandfather, Louis II, who died last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 28, 1949 | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...unending search for titles that will make good reading on theater marquees, Hollywood is still hard to satisfy. Among the latest title changes: Where Men Are Men to Fancy Pants; A Mother for May to Father Is a Bachelor; Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy to A Place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Marquee Bait | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

Cooper Union had plenty to celebrate. Over the years its assets, with the help of other rich men, had grown to $12,700,000, its schools of art and engineering were fully accredited on the college level, awarding bachelor's degrees in civil, electrical, mechanical and chemical engineering and certificates of graduation in fine arts, graphic arts and architecture. Three evenings a week there were public lectures in the Great Hall on subjects ranging from atomic fission to Indonesian dances. Among the Union's eminent alumni had been Sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Labor Leader Samuel Gompers, Scientist-Inventor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Free of Charge | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

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