Word: grantedness
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The Class of '67 will follow one other precedent set last year -- it will get its degrees in alphabetical order, not in order of academic distinction. Before last year, degrees were granted alphabetically within the categories of summa cum laude, magna cum laude, cum laude and B.A.
For more than seven centuries, both freedom and democracy eluded Finland, which silently submitted to the rule of its giant neighbors-first Sweden and then, after 1809, Czarist Russia. After revolution toppled the Czar in 1917, the Bolsheviks repudiated imperialism and granted Finland its demand for independence. Civil war broke...
Understanding Salve. Günther, in fact, entered his career without benefit of even a high school degree. He was informally granted the title of "Doktor" in a Russian-run Czech prison camp, where, despite his own frostbite-caused amputations, he gradually took over treatment of the other German prisoners...
In 1958 the court upheld the law against foreign voting as a reasonable exercise of Congress's power over foreign affairs. But last week the court changed its mind, thus taking the rare step of overruling itself and voiding an act of Congress in the same decision. "Our Constitution...
Potentially Disastrous. Initially, the Administration responded to the gathering clouds in the Middle East with an apparent equanimity in keeping with the air of unreality that enveloped the crisis. After all, the Arab-Israeli confrontation had for years been taken for granted as the normal state of affairs. But as...