Word: magnas
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...Valery Giscard d'Estaing in paying their respects in Washington. Many countries have sent gifts to the U.S., though there is nothing to compare with France's centennial present of the Statue of Liberty. Britain has loaned to the U.S. for a year a copy of the Magna Carta, signed in 1215. (In like spirit, an anonymous U.S. institution helped the British government last week to buy back Flodden Field, site of the Battle of Hastings.) Canada, which became a new home for some 40,000 exiled American Tories during and after the revolt, has contributed...
Wayne Hays was unavoidably detained, but nearly a score of other Congressmen made the trip to London, and so, after suitable ceremonies, Magna Carta reached America's shores last week. Actually, the huge Capitol Hill contingent returned to Washington with a gold facsimile ten days before the document itself was flown over...
...original Magna Carta has dis appeared, but the document that will be displayed in the Capitol Rotunda for the next year is the first of four copies signed by a reluctant King John at Runnymede in 1215, granting personal and political freedoms to England's rebellious barons. The charter is regarded as the foundation stone for the common...
Mansfield, who received one of the Government Department's two summas in 1953, said yesterday that the low number of magna and cum laude degrees in Government this year is the result of a new, tougher policy...
...applied to the transcripts of the Class of 1975, Pipkin said, the new proposal would change the number of magna and cum laude degrees that were actually awarded "only very slightly...