Word: magnas
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...Davis, a native of Franklin, graduated magna cum laude from Harvard...
...magna cum laude graduate of the School of Design, Passonneau, has served with TVA and was in private practice before joining the faculty at St. Louis. While at Washington University, he was active in determining educational policy, as well as designing several buildings for the School...
Carbon & Kitty Hawk. He was born in 1861 and, of course, was given the best sort of education. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at 16, switched to Harvard, graduated magna cum laude in 1882 (the year Franklin Delano Roosevelt, perish the name, was born), went on to Zurich for further studies. Later, he journeyed into Pennsylvania looking for likely investments in oil and gas. Cabot concluded that there was money to be made in byproducts from the refining process. As usual, his judgment turned out to be correct. In 1887 he began manufacturing carbon black as a coloring...
...Morgenthau's background includes Deerfield. Amherst (magna cum laude) and Yale Law School-and a good war record: he enlisted in the Navy as an apprentice seaman during World War II, emerged a lieutenant commander with several decorations after having two ships torpedoed out from under him. Picked last year by Bobby Kennedy as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, he worked up a series of successful narcotics, stock market and income tax fraud prosecutions...
Crooks attributes the high enrollment in science courses to students who are not scientists but "want to get their science credits out of the way in the summer, so that science won't interfere with their magna's in history...