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Thank you to the head of Comcast, Ted Harbert, thank you to the powers that be that took his reruns down, his Disney statue in Orlando, they stripped him of his doctorship at Temple University.
From The Guardian • Jul. 31, 2015
Bayle was not aware that Locke had been denied in 1666 his doctorship by the hostile Oxford authorities.
From The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century by Bastide, Charles
If he was neither the one nor the other, indeed, his doctorship would no doubt avail him the less.
From Life of Adam Smith by Rae, John
No selection from the alphabet, no doctorship, no fellowship, be it of ever so learned or royal a society, no knightship,—not though it be of the Garter,—confers so fair an honour.
From Can You Forgive Her? by Trollope, Anthony
Not one came, moreover, without her little pipkin of pennyroyal, sage, balm, or other herb-tea, delighted at an opportunity of signalizing her kindness and her doctorship.
From Tales of a Traveller by Irving, Washington
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