Word: cum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them on a guitar for his family (wife Florence, a onetime radio actress who still holds a union card, children Lex, 14, and Anna Barbara. 13). Born and raised in South Dakota-his mother was once the state's Mother of the Year-Larson made his A.B. magna cum laude in South Dakota's Augustana College, moved on to South Dakota University's law school, there won a Rhodes scholarship. At Oxford, he took first-class honors in jurisprudence, later got his M.A. At the Union Society, Oxford's top debating forum, he made treasurer...
...Harvardianus pollenti pectore nunc praesentire potest quam mira et magna Plautus et Bacchus et fervidus ille puer et solutis Gratiae zonis in campo et area nostria iamiam effecturi sint? Nam hac in fabula Plautina est quidam filius qui scortillum venustum perdite amat; est fili pater, decrepitus senex, qui una cum filio non modo potat sed etiam amicam ductat atque clam uxorem suo animo volup facit; est denique eiusdem fili mater quae victrix virum accubantem cum corona amplexum amicam conspicit et - o imperium uxoriosum - e lustris rapit. Sed de argumento satis superque dictumst...
Nunc ad illos transco qui principales partes agunt. Ex quibus primi cum primis nominandi hi Roscii: ille servus sollers, virgarum lascivia (quem nos T. Hilarem appellamus), et cius alter, Shillius Homo (qui solus intellegit uti miser sit homo qui amat), et Norris noster nobilis (qui verba blanda pro auro et dicta docta prodatis pracbet). Nec quidem vos estis mihi practereundac, o amatrices dicaculae et sagaces, tu, M. Paludis Filum et tu, o matre forti filia fortior, M. Tabum; nec tu, dura Dersofia; nec vos, o nymphae graciles, meae Mariac ambae; nec denique tu, o vox aurea cuius nomen barbarum Latin...
...Cavert was a small-town boy, son of a farmer-businessman of Charlton, N.Y. (pop. 100). After Union College in Schenectady, N.Y., he headed for Union Theological Seminary, graduated summa cum laude in 1915, and was ordained a minister in the Presbyterian Church. His first ecumenical job came two years later: assistant secretary of the General Wartime Commission of the Churches...
...week the college announced that Richard had completed all his requirements with a 3.94 average out of a possible 4.0. "It really wasn't difficult at all," says Richard, who certainly ought to know. When he receives his diploma next June, it will carry the three words, summa cum laude...