Word: magna
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...graduate magna cum laude of a ranking Jesuit institution, Fordham, I observe that the fatal intellectual schism that rends Catholic colleges has seldom been more openly revealed than in your story on Notre Dame's Father Hesburgh...
...Dixi equidem et dico: ecquis domi est?' clamavit Pu magna voce...
...Minime,' respondit vox; deinde subiunxit: 'Noli tam magna voce clamare. Jam in primo te clarissime audivi...
...Manhattan investment banker (Dillon, Read & Co.), Dillon was born in Geneva while his parents were on a Grand Tour, went to Groton and Harvard (magna cum laude, '31). After graduation he bought a seat on the New York Stock Exchange for $185,000 and joined the family firm. He went into the Navy as an ensign in 1942, served with the Seventh Fleet, was discharged as a lieutenant commander. Married in 1931, he has two daughters, maintains homes in Washington, New York, New Jersey, Maine and France...
Orville Lothrop Freeman, 42. Orville Freeman's Swedish grandfather homesteaded a farm in Minnesota in the 1850s, but Orville was a city boy, son of a Minneapolis storekeeper. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Minnesota just in time to enlist in the Marines at the start of World War II. During the Bougainville campaign, a Japanese bullet ripped through his left cheek, left him unable to speak. As the wound healed-the scar is still visible-Freeman learned to talk again and in the process developed into an uncommonly forceful orator...