Word: cum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gaebler, who won his A.B. cum laude at Harvard in 1941, was ordained and installed as Unitarian minister to students in Cambridge last Sunday night. Gaebler has completed his studies at the Divinity School and will receive his degree when the board meets...
...Manstein thus turned to what the Russians called "buffalo strategy." But this strategy of massed-force-cum-surprise had two flaws: it overestimated the value of the tank-plane team; it underestimated the value of the grey, sturdy, patient Russian mujik as a military weapon...
Died. Julia Etta Willkie, 57, Wendell Willkie's versatile elder sister; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Bridgeport, Conn. The family's firstborn, she majored in Greek at Indiana U. (summa cum laude, '08), taught languages at Indiana's Manchester College after postgraduate philolo-gizing in Europe. She translated for the U.S. Government during World War I, took a law degree (1916) and shared the Elwood practice of her father, later worked in Ontario as a skilled bacteriologist. At the time of her death she headed the priorities section of United Aircraft's Bridgeport division...
...Clark did not believe in overdone ultraspecialization. The quality of his teachings attracted visitors. Many a soldier of Lieut. General George Patton's Seventh Army got his final polish in General Clark's classes. And when the Fifth embarked for the Salerno beaches, it had been graduated cum laude from the toughest of training camps...
Picturesque "Prich" Prichard arrived in Washington with a cum laude degree from Harvard Law School, and without the distinction of not being a protege of Justice Felix Frankfurter. He moved on to the Justice Department, to the new Office of Economic Stabilization. On dull days, when there was nothing else to decide, Washington quidnuncs often decided that he was the king-sized nucleus of a new Brain Trust...