Word: magna
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...average, earned a master's at Western Reserve, and is the science librarian of Oberlin College. Ragan A. Henry, 29, son of a Kentucky carpenter's helper, came from a family with an income of $3,000. He won $4,600 in scholarships at Harvard, graduated magna cum laude ('56), went on to Harvard Law ('61), is a Philadelphia lawyer...
...academic record was generally mediocre, and he made little impression on Faculty members. Yet despite the over-all mediocrity of his record, Kennedy did well enough senior year to graduate cum laude--better than 70 per cent of his classmates. And his thesis on appeasement at Munich earned a magna and became a best-seller...
...granted permission to spend the spring semester of 1939 in Europe. His father, Joseph P. Kennedy, was then ambassador to England. The young Kennedy's tour of the European capitals led to his total improvement the following year in his senior thesis. "Appeasement at Munich." The thesis received a magna, and was subsequently published as the book, Why England slept, selling 40,000 copies...
Following his brother, Joseph P Kennedy, Jr., to the College in the fall of 1936--the year of Harvard --he received the A.B. degree cum laude in June, 1940. His Senior Thesis received a magna and was subsequently published as the book, Why England Slept...
Home's victory may prove to be Pyrrhic. As a millionaire, one of Britain's biggest landowners, an Old Etonian, head of a family whose pedigree predates Magna Carta, he has inevitably caused the revival of an old argument: that the Tories' progressive, democratic goals are mere window dressing for the party of wealth and privilege...