Word: magnas
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Legend has it that after he was forced to agree to the Magna Carta in 1215, King John of England threw himself on the floor in a rage, crawling around and biting on a stick like a dog. There were good reasons for such a show of temper. The document imposed on him by rebellious barons and bishops in a meadow called Runnymede was one of the first comprehensive written attempts to limit the powers of the English King and to set forth the rights of his subjects. Lord Bryce, the historian, has described it as "the starting point...
...great charter. Under a proposed statute repeal bill, some 200 British laws that are "no longer of practical utility" are likely to be scrapped soon by Parliament, including one "prohibiting common night walkers in the universities." More significant, all but two of the remaining twelve provisions of Magna Carta are also to be struck from the books...
...morning to deliver newspapers, and he both edited the school newspaper and served as student council president. After that he worked days in an insurance office while attending, at night, the University of Minnesota and then the St. Paul College of Law, from which he graduated magna cum laude. "We had enough to eat and enough to wear," says a younger brother, Paul. "But I suppose we'd be considered deprived today...
...undergraduate here, he served briefly as president of the CRIMSON in 1942 (a year when the paper had three presidents). He graduated magna cum laude in the now-defunct field of mechanical engineering, and went off to join the Air Force...
...undergraduate at Harvard College, Hart served as the Editorial Chairman of the CRIMSON. At the Law School, he was President of the Law Review. In 1926, Hart received his A.B. degree summa cum laude and in 1930 took his LL.B. magna cum laude...