Word: magnas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Master's Tools. Engle, a lanky figure with penetrating blue eyes and an awesome store of energy, grew up in Cedar Rapids, just 24 miles away. He graduated magna cum laude from Iowa's Coe College in 1931, took his master's at Iowa City and in 1932 won the annual prize of the Yale Series of Younger Poets with his first book of poems, Worn Earth. Later he went to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, tended wicket and pulled an oar for Merton College, returned to Iowa in 1937 to start shaping poets...
...received his A.B. degree magna cum laude in 1943, and after service with the Army in World War II, returned to the University for his master's in 1948 and his doctorate...
This record, which of itself must be of greater relevance to the Board's election than those things with which you were concerned, includes Bunker's graduation from Harvard Magna Cum Laude; his election to Phi Beta Kappa; his attending Trinity College, Cambridge, on a Rhodes Scholarship; and the many military honors bestowed upon him both before and after his service as Aide-de-Camp to General MacArthur, including the Distinguished Service Medal and the Legion of Merit. These things, plus the fact that he has attained great success and recognition as a lawyer, as a businessman, as a military...
Before the third election in June of the Senior year, all men who have been recommended for either magna cum laude or summa cum laude degrees are added to the Registrar's list of men who receive consideration from the Society...
...Maier gave occupation authorities more trouble than any other top German official. When the U.S. military governor called him on the carpet for letting off convicted Nazis (he pardoned 2.564 in seven years), he growled that Swabians had been democrats long before Americans, referring to a local magna charta wrung from a Württemberg noble...