Word: magnas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fought for Church against State. Courtiers foully murdered and mangled him on the very steps of his altar and Henry II did an abject penance. Stephen Langton (1207-22) persuaded Pope Innocent III to excommunicate King John for combating Church administration; he stirred the English barons to demand the Magna Carta of John; later (after John's death) he supported the crown against the nobles. Thomas Cranmer (1533-56), himself twice married (first to "Black Joan," relative of the landlady of the Dolphin Inn at Cambridge where...
...each graduating class is the hope and joy of the tutorial system as conducted at Harvard. The present incentive to attain Honors and Distinction is undoubtedly responsible for the increase in likely candidates for Phi Beta Kappa. Wheather it is the familiar watch chain symbol or the magic, "cum," "magna" or "summa," which attracts undergraduates to excel in such a secondary commodity as book learning is not important. The results are the same, and the urge inspired by the same ideals. At any rate Phi Beta Kappa finds itself in the rather pleasant position of having a wealth of candidates...
Came the army to Newbury, where it took shelter for the night under the hospital almshouse roof of the Royal Arms of King John, where the famed Magna Charter was signed in 1215. But so tired were they that they cared not that their abode bore a royal name...
...command of his army after its 11-day march from Wales, he having marched only part of two days with them. Anxious London "bobbies" gave them unnecessary protection as they swung through the main streets to the foot of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar square, where a Labor Magna Charta was read. There followed a meeting with Labor...
...warm admirers and follow ers, remindful of the $7,000,000 he has given to charities, schools, universities in Peking and his clemency in pardoning many a Chinaman languishing in jail, called this latest manifestation of Marshal Chang's will the "Magna Charta," the "Chinese Droits de l'Homme...