Word: magna
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...done on airplane flights, during which officials of one Deutsche Bank branch after another accompany him in relays like Pony Express riders, a new team coming aboard with its problems at each stop. But Abs has also found time to spearhead an increasingly potent campaign for an international "Magna Carta" that would discourage governments from arbitrarily expropriating or discriminating against foreign capital...
...Navy chaplain, Hester went to high school in Long Beach, Calif., simultaneously earned a summa in humanities and a magna in history at Princeton ('45), served in World War II as a Marine Corps Japanese-language officer. Then he found himself bossing "the implementation of democratization" of Japanese schools in Fukuoka Prefecture. "Ridiculous," he now calls it: "One boy 22 years old was trying to do a job for 3,000,000 people." Hester went on to a Rhodes scholarship at Oxford, where he took a doctorate in international affairs; then he tried advertising research. Recommended by impressed elders...
...Have Not Known Him."Then Eisenhower, whose funnybone is about as small as his wishbone is large, had essayed some heavy sarcasm at the expense of the magna cum laude from Smith. The Peace Corps, he said, is a "juvenile experiment. If you want to take a trip to the moon, why not send a Peace Corps up there? It is an undeveloped country...
...girl was Margery Jane Michelmore, 23, a magna cum laude graduate of Smith College (1960), who had gone to Nigeria with 36 other Peace Corps pioneers to teach. Although she had undergone seven weeks' training at Harvard to prepare for her new life, Margery was shocked when she first saw Ibadan, a city of many slums and open sewers in the upland jungles of Nigeria. While still brushing up on her Nigerian history at a University College of Ibadan indoctrination course, she wrote to a friend, Robert V. Storer at Cambridge, and crammed 150 vivid words onto...
...Would the College be a wonderfully stimulating and rewarding place when every student at entrance was a potential magna or summa man? Or would a precocious academic careerism tend to corrupt the young and inhibit breadth of interest and the disinterested search for understanding and enrichment? Would academic competitiveness be greatly increased and tensions, anxieties and frustrations grow unbearably, particularly for those able students who, perhaps only because they dared to take a course outside their field or had bad luck with an instructor or two, found themselves