Word: cumming
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...state supreme court judge. After prepping at Hotchkiss. young Potter wavered between law and journalism at Yale, was chairman of the Yale Daily News, tried a summertime stint as a cub reporter on the Taft family's Cincinnati Times-Star before finally deciding on law. Graduated cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa (1937)) ne spent a year studying international law at Cambridge University on a Henry Fellowship (awarded to four U.S. college graduates a year), then graduated from Yale Law School ('41), also cum laude. He saw World War II sea duty as a lieutenant aboard Navy oilers...
...father still thought she was crazy when, just short of her 33rd birthday, she enrolled at Tufts College Medical School. But she graduated summa cum laude. Soon after her internship, Dr. Jordan got an invitation from up-and-coming Surgeon Frank H. Lahey to join him in a new clinic. No surgeon, Dr. Jordan deliberately narrowed her field from the broad specialty of internal medicine to the new subspecialty of gastroenterology. In working days of 14 to 18 hours, she devoted her seemingly inexhaustible energy to the diagnosis and treatment of indigestion, peptic ulcers (in stomach, duodenum and small bowel...
Like his younger brother John (sometime Governor of Connecticut, now Ambassador to Spain), "Cab" Lodge followed the beaten Brahmin path to Harvard. By taking extra courses, he finished up in three years. "I disliked the academic atmosphere," he says. "I wanted to get going." He graduated cum laude despite the speedup, explains that he did it the easy way, by majoring in Romance languages, taking advantage of the fluent French he learned at schools he attended in Paris...
...moist of memory. For four long years Portia had pursued the stuff and stench of animal husbandry. She had mastered the chemistry of manure and the physics of the plow. She had emerged from North Dakota Ag (crossing a calf with a jumping bean for ready-made cheese) summa cum laude. And all those years she had nourished a dream...
...ranging from a cigar-store wooden Indian to an early-model Ford, a chipped plaster statue of Washington and a glass showcase of latter-day examples of Western tumbleweeds. Some of the signs, said Robertson, were embarrassingly inept. Example: an 18th century New England Windsor chair-cum-writing-arm artily labeled in three languages as the model of chairs used in "virtually all" U.S. schools today. "A group I saw," said Robertson, "read the card and burst into laughter...