Word: cum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...graduating from high school in Bradford, Pa. in 1898. After a short hitch in the Spanish-American War, he went to Harvard instead of Yale because his teetotaling father believed that there were fewer saloons in Harvard Square than in New Haven. Piper was a star hammer thrower, graduated cum laude in 1903. He spent the next eleven years as a construction engineer, went back to Bradford in 1914 and became a successful oil-well operator. When the Taylor Brothers Aircraft Corp. moved to Bradford, Piper became a director, though he had little interest in aviation...
Coupled with the tutorial change will be a revision in the requirement for obtaining a degree of cum laude in General Studies whereby all students not taking senior tutorial will be automatically considered for the General Studies degree...
There are pages and characters in Herbert Lobsenz' first novel (which won the $10,000 Harper Prize for 1961) that are not total losses. In Satry's brother Alonso. Author Lobsenz fashions a Don Quixote-cum-Candide whose pratfalls over the purity of his own logic attain a kind of tragic hilarity. Alonso is the puppet of his fate and a prototype of all the fanatically idealistic students who march and die in the streets...
...course. Dr. Lenard suffers a slip of the stylus. Forgivably enough, he fumbles a number of Milne's choicer puns ("ambush" as a bush, "issue" as a sneeze), and the great gag about Piglet's grandfather. Trespassers W. somehow just lies there in Latin. Furthermore, panistostatus cum butyro, though verbally correct, makes no sense at all in the Roman context as a translation of "buttered toast." According to Dr. Frederick L. Santee, a leading U.S. Latinist, the Romans had no toast and no word for it, and though they had a word for butter (borrowed from the Greek...
CAPTAIN CAT, by Robert Holles. An English novel, rich with lowest-class slang, in which two rebels at a military-cum-reform school discover that boyish idealism is no match for The System and the venom of original sin in which their regimented mates are steeped...