Word: magnas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some 13 jobs, he said, was he able to realize that the "only chance for a better life was through education." So he went to night school and graduated first in his class. He was admitted to California at Santa Barbara, where he became student body president and graduated magna cum laude...
...Class of '67 will follow one other precedent set last year -- it will get its degrees in alphabetical order, not in order of academic distinction. Before last year, degrees were granted alphabetically within the categories of summa cum laude, magna cum laude, cum laude...
...first group of mature works, the so-called "veils" and "florals," date from 1954 through 1960. The overlapping washes of transluscent Magna (acrylic) colors on the unsized, white canvas produce a veil-like form whose colors, although rich and sensuous, seem to mystically dematerialize like shifting, almost gaseous, vapors into the texture of the canvas. One wash of color is applied over another, but the transparency allows all the layers to come forward simultaneously. The visual effect is breathtakingly beautiful and bewildering at the same time. As the viewer becomes involved with a specific passage, he feels that...
Archaic Rules. The right to speedy trial was articulated as long ago as Magna Carta (1215) and later in the Sixth Amendment (1791) for the pur pose of preventing prolonged detention without trial. Today, most states apply the right to defendants on bail or in jail; one modern purpose is to prevent ero sion of trial evidence. But Klopfer was out of luck in North Carolina, which restricted the right only to defendants in custody...
Though he worked at a number of odd jobs (including chauffering President Conant) and played baseball, his marks began to inch higher. He made Phi Beta Kappa, got a magna on his Economics thesis and won a Fulbright...