Word: magnas
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...District of Columbia Circuit. A photograph of Barry Goldwater has a prominent place on one wall of his chambers; last year he fired a law clerk reportedly for signing an antiwar petition. But his logical judicial reasoning commands the respect of both liberals and conservatives. He was a magna cum laude graduate of Yale and made a reputation as one of Washington's ablest trial lawyers. One client: former Communist Party Chief Earl Browder, indicted for contempt of Congress in 1950 and acquitted the next year...
...vast political intelligence apparatus of the FBI. Hoover began gathering political intelligence after an order in 1936 by Franklin D. Roosevelt charging him to prepare for war by amassing information on groups likely to commit sabotage in the event of war. John Elliff termed this order the "Magna Carta of domestic intelligence." Hoover has operated on its authority ever since...
...with the Conservative government, while 39 Tories switched the other way. By an unexpectedly wide margin of 356 votes to 244, Britain agreed in principle to join the European Economic Community effective Jan. 1, 1973. The decision may not have been quite on a par with the signing of Magna Carta, the defeat of the Spanish Armada, or Waterloo, as some claimed, but it did promise to change the shape and character of Europe-and Europe's role in the world...
After graduating from Harvard magna cum laude, Farber went on to the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton, where he received a Master of Public Affairs degree...
Seventy-seven per cent of the men will graduate with honors, while 88 per cent of the women will receive honors degrees. Two-hundred and twelve men (20 per cent) will graduate magna cum laude, and 49 (5 per cent) will graduate summa cum laude. From Radcliffe, 88 women (33 per cent) will receive magna degrees, and 9 (4 per cent) will graduate summa...