Word: litt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oxford representatives are world-renowned scholars. Sir Henry A. Miers, M.A., D.Sc., Fellow of Magdalen College, is the chairman. He is professor of Mineralogy at Oxford. The director of the British Museum is also included in the group. He is Sir Frederic G. Kenyon, G.B.E., K.C.B., M.A., Hon. D. Litt., Hon. Fellow of New College and Magdalen College, and internationally known as an eminent classical scholar. The third man is Sir Edmund K. Chambers, K.B.E., M.A., Corpus Christi College, who is the author of several books on the history of the English theatre...
Congresswoman Ruth Sears Baker Pratt of New York Master of Humane Litt...
...seas high and wild. Instead of matriculating at Oxford he sought, while working as a handyman around a New York saloon, to learn the art of bartending but was never deemed sufficiently adept. No matter? his poems sold. He went to Oxford in 1922 to be made a D. Litt. honoris causa. Intentionally or not the new Poet Laureate symbolizes the fact that Britain is now ruled by men with almost as little formal education as himself (Messrs. MacDonald and Snowden attended board school...
Lombard's famed alumni Include: Poet Carl Sandburg (1902), who holds a Litt. D. from both Lombard and Knox; Allen Francis Moore (1889), president of Moore Investment...
...years, erudite Sir Ernest A. Wallis Budge, Litt. D., D. Litt., D. Lit., was Keeper of the Museum's Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities. His monograph on Mike may be considered the acme of obital biography, fit to rank with his monumental Coptic History of Elijah the Tish- bite. No more awful authority could be found for the statement that Mike "preferred sole to whiting, and whiting to haddock, and sardines to herrings; for cod he had no use whatever. He owed much to the three kind-hearted gatekeepers who cooked his food for him, and treated...