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a research doctorate usually based on at least 3 years graduate study and a dissertation; the highest degree awarded in universities in many fields of study
- He was a Bachelor of Arts of Blodgett College, and a Doctor of Philosophy in economics of Yale.Chapter 3 (9% in)
- On the other side of Babbitt lived Howard Littlefield, Ph.D., in a strictly modern house whereof the lower part was dark red tapestry brick, with a leaded oriel, the upper part of pale stucco like spattered clay, and the roof red-tiled.Chapter 3 (7% in)
- —I'm no Ph.D. like Littlefield, and no poet, and I haven't anything to spring!Chapter 8 (7% in)
- The guests were Howard Littlefield, the doctor of philosophy who furnished publicity and comforting economics to the Street Traction Company; Vergil Gunch, the coal-dealer, equally powerful in the Elks and in the Boosters' Club; Eddie Swanson the agent for the Javelin Motor Car, who lived across the street; and Orville Jones, owner of the Lily White Laundry, which justly announced itself "the biggest, busiest, bulliest cleanerie shoppe in Zenith."Chapter 8 (44% in)
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