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Usage examples of diploma.

Her eyes swung compulsively to her diploma already framed and hanging above the chest of drawers.

She handed him a diploma from Oxford that was dated more than a century earlier.

He wished he could understand the fierce connection he felt to it, wished he could remember why he had saved that aging diploma that belonged to his ancestor.

I asked him what he was planning to do without a diploma and he said he thought he might do some social work in the slums.

I said I guessed that social work like everything else needed training and preparation and that after he got his diploma I and his mother would be happy to send him on to some college where he could get training as a social worker.

So they played through and we went on talking about his diploma and the rules of the game.

And, in order to understand every thing from the beginning, you must look through microscopes at the movements of amoebae, and cells in worms, or, with still greater composure, believe in every thing that men with a diploma of infallibility shall say to you about them.

I tried to buy a diploma for an invalid friend at home who had never traveled, and whose desire all his life has been to ascend Mont Blanc, but the Guide-in-Chief rather insolently refused to sell me one.

I TOLD him my friend was sick and could not come himself, but he said he did not care a VERDAMMTES PFENNIG, he wanted his diploma for himself--did I suppose he was going to risk his neck for that thing and then give it to a sick stranger?

If I thought of it, probably my mind ran on a decent practice somewhere after I had got my diploma, and a little home with my Princess beside me, but I think we were more concerned with present happiness than future possibilities.

She and I paired in all the parties and rags that our little clique organized, and all went well until my last term was half-way through, when I realized that, still a year and a half short of getting the diploma and turning out as a fully-fledged dental surgeon, I had to give it all up and trust to a vague and most unpromising future to bring me and my Princess together again.

Commencement left me with a diploma, a new dress-suit, an out-of-date medical library, a box of surgical instruments of the same date as the books, and an incipient case of typhoid fever.

Partly because he had this thing for Britney Yardley, and she had a high school diploma plus a VoTech course.

And what kind of man kept certificates and diplomas of a relative long-dead?

Lucas paused at the far wall and examined the array of framed diplomas and certificates that hung there.