Word: magnas
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Elizabeth B. Borden will become Director of Admissions. She has been director of Women's Archives, and of the Radcliffe Seminars, since she graduated magna cum laude from Radcliffe in 1950. In 1954 she received her master's degree from the College. She is also chairman of a subcommittee of the Radcliffe Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa...
Moving into Miss Borden's present post, Barbara Miller Solomon will become Director of Radcliffe Seminars and of Women's Archives. Now associate professor of History at Wheelock College, Mrs. Solomon graduated magna cum laude from Radcliffe in 1940, and took her Ph.D. from the College in 1953. In 1956 she published two books...
...speller, began teaching eager natives, turned out countless yards of cambric Mother Hubbards, shirts and suits (the King ordered a dozen fancy shirts and a broadcloth jacket), promoted monogamy, introduced the spare, hardy architecture of New England whaling ports. A few years later Kamehameha III signed the "Hawaiian Magna Charta," thus paved the way for parliamentary government...
...February. The month's top ten moneymakers, as reported by Variety: 1) Auntie Mame (Warner), 2) Some Came Running (M-G-M), 3) Separate Tables (United Artists), 4) Perfect Furlough (Universal), 5) Inn of the Sixth Happiness (20th Century-Fox), 6) South Seas Adventure (Cinerama), 7) South Pacific (Magna), 8) Gigi (M-G-M), 9) Rally Round the Flag, Boys! (20th Century-Fox), 10) Bell, Book and Candle (Columbia...
After an academic career that she calls "not at all distinguished," Mrs. Cannon graduated magna cum laude, then returned to St. Paul. There she became a high school teacher, instructing all subjects by "keeping a day ahead of the students." Two years later she married her remarkable husband, physiologist Walter B. Cannon, and returned to Cambridge...