Word: magnas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Churchill's stirring addresses in Missouri and in Richmond, Va. [TIME, March 18], might very well be called a high point in understanding of the mission and responsibility of the English-speaking nations of the world; also, of a deep responsibility which a tradition carrying on from the Magna Carta to the Atlantic Charter demands. When you listened to the deep, well-known dramatic voice of "Old Winnie," you could not miss being deeply moved...
...Ceteris Partibus. In London Archbishop Bernard Griffin, youngest cardinal designate (46), retrieved the flowing cappa magna of the late Cardinal Kinsley from the Gainsborough Film Studios (to whom they had been lent for a Paganini movie), had it altered to fit, set out for Rome...
Witty, studious William Henry Hastie, 41, appointed by President Truman last week, has been dean of Washington's Howard University Law School for six years,' has long been a capable public servant. Born to a pharmacist father and schoolteacher mother in Knoxville, Tenn., he was graduated magna cum laude from Amherst, went on to Harvard Law School. There he became one of the few Negroes ever to serve on the Law Review, and one of Felix Frankfurter's Happy Hot Dogs...
...think that some people over here imagine that Socialists are out to destroy freedom. We in the Labor Party ... are in line with those who fought for Magna Carta and . . . the Declaration of Independence. ... In the ranks of our party in the House of Commons are at least 40 practicing journalists. There are several clergymen, many local preachers, plenty of Protestants, some Catholics and some Jews. We are not likely, therefore, to attack freedom of religion or freedom of the press. . . . Our party today is drawn from all classes...
During a Roman heat wave, Italy's Socialists sweated out fusion in the imposing Aula Magna of the Collegio Romano. There hundreds of Socialists gathered for their first Congress since Mussolini suppressed their party...