Word: magnas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...magna cum laude out of Yale, with a wife who comes from a wealthy Rochester, N.Y., family, Seith has poured $600,000 of his own and his wife's money into the campaign. Percy, stunned by his new underdog status, finds himself short on funds and has had to spend $100,000 from his personal bank account. He is now pleading for contributions to finance a last-minute TV blitz that he hopes will chase away the incumbency blues and turn the election around...
...attractive daughter of a wealthy, distinguished American family graduates magna cum laude from Radcliffe College in 1969 and gets a job in a London art gallery. There she meets and falls in love with a dashing young businessman from Greece. He is a year older than she, and he shares her passion for medieval religious art. In 1975 he follows her to Staunton Hill, her family's ancestral home for more than a century: a replica of a Scottish castle set on thousands of acres of rolling plantation land in southern Virginia...
...prepared to pay big bucks. First of all, I want your secret formula for predicting Ivy League football games. It looks like I won't be able to graduate summa cum laude as a predicter, as you did, but it would be nice to get a magna. Hell, at this point I'd take CLGS...
McDaniel received three degrees from Harvard: A.B. magna cum laude (1893), A.M. (1894), and Ph.D. (1899). He was born in Cambridge in 1871, the son of a local lawyer, and attended the Cambridge Latin School before coming to Harvard...
Amid the soybean and corn fields of Minnesota, an intellectual businessman (magna cum laude, Amherst '51) is pondering how the U.S. can do well by doing good with its agricultural technology. Thomas Wyman is the 6-ft. 3-in. president of Green Giant Co., and since he took over in 1975, he has aimed at revitalizing that famous but slow growing processor of vegetables; this year its sales will approach $500 million. An outspoken executive, he often rebukes business for high-polluting plants, unsafe products, underfunded pensions, and overseas bribes. Despite such visible failings, he argues, there...