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Word: magna (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hitting at the Lords, Wilson took on one of Britain's most venerable institutions. It was the Lords, of course, that laid the basis for British democracy by forcing King John to accept Magna Carta in 1215. In the 14th century the Lords began to share their parliamentary power with the Commons, but it nonetheless managed to remain the dominant house until the 19th century. Three times in the 20th century British governments have significantly changed the Lords. Its power to delay legislation passed by the House of Commons was cut to two years in 1911 and cut again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: A Blow to the Lords | 11/10/1967 | See Source »

Cumulative averages and class standings will no longer be kept for undergraduates. The Faculty has not yet decided how it will determine the honors degrees of cum laude, magna cum laude, and summa cum laude...

Author: By Boisfeuillet JONES Jr., | Title: Yale Adopts Complete Pass-Fail | 11/3/1967 | See Source »

...California at Santa Barbara. At first, Sorrentino felt he had nothing in common with the suntanned college youths who "talked about summer vacations, beach parties, things I knew nothing about." But he stuck it out and in his senior year, was elected president of the student body. After graduating magna cum laude, Joe went back into the Marine Corps for two years, feeling that "I had a blemish on my record and wanted to make up for that." He did. "This time I became platoon leader, highest scorer in athletic competition and changed my general to an honorable discharge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Students: The Dropout Who Made Good | 6/30/1967 | See Source »

...subject matter, he happened on comic strips, he explains, "because of their anti-artistic image and because they are such a modern subject." He took over the whole cartoon vocabulary, including printers' Benday dots (originally suggested to him by the exaggerated dots on a bubble-gum wrapper), primary Magna colors, heavy, black-outlined forms. "I like taking a discredited subject and putting it into a new unity," Lichtenstein says (currently he is working with 1930s pseudo-Bauhaus modern), "I was serious about the comic strips, but I also expected I them to look funny, because the whole idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: Kidding Everybody | 6/23/1967 | See Source »

...marry him; they now have five children.* Eager for a career in public affairs, he entered Harvard Law School in 1945, because "law schools seem to attract an extraordinary number of the people who have the highest potential of each generation." He made the Harvard Law Review, graduated magna cum laude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Universities: Anxiety Behind the Facade | 6/23/1967 | See Source »

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