Word: magnas
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While he sardonically remarks that "everyone is entitled to my opinion," Jarvis emphasizes that his success is the result of sheer stubbornness. The son of a state supreme court judge, Jarvis grew up in the mining town of Magna, Utah. After graduating with straight A's from Utah State University, he talked a local bank into loaning him $15,000 to buy an ailing weekly newspaper, the Magna Times. By the time he was 30, he had parlayed his purchase into eleven papers worth...
Three hundred and seventy-nine seniors will graduate without honors. Of the honors graduates, 352 will receive cum laude degrees, 304 cum laude in general studies, 354 magna, 24 magna with highest honors, and 59 summa. The Economics Department will award the most summas, with a total of six. A number of departments, however, will distribute no summas, including the departments of History, English and American Literature, Philosophy, Music and Sociology...
...graduating class, 190 members will graduate without honors. Summa cum laude degrees will be awarded to 53 graduates, 366 will receive magna cum laude degrees, and 371 will graduate cum laude. Cum laude honors for General Studies will be awarded to 441 seniors...
...chic, was bound for the Law School after a year off. (That, in itself, surprised Long John. He had begun to think only young Marxists wanted to go to law school. To burrow from within, or so they said.) Bentley was a quarterback, a winner. He had composed a magna thesis in two weeks working with very little research and a very shaky theoretical knowledge. Bentley was against nuclear power and for gun control. But for all of his ACLU Nader's Raiders sensibilities. Bentley--reclining in comfort on his waterbed, propped up by cushions--would grin in agreement...
Celebrated Congresswoman from Texas ... Possible Attorney General or U.N. Ambassador . . . Age 40 . . . Commanding presence and great, bell-like voice . . . Daughter of a Houston Baptist preacher . . . Debating champ at Texas Southern University; graduated magna cum laude, 1956 . . . LL.B. from Boston University Law School, 1959 . . . Practiced civil law until entering politics in 1966 . . . Shrewd and moderate . . . In 1973 became first black woman ever sent to Congress from South . . . Won national acclaim on House Judiciary Committee during the Nixon impeachment hearings . . . Team player: loyally supports conservative Democrats when called...