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...colon-conscious. It is far more important to say it with a colon is scholarly. Consequently, the first mechanical aid is the constant and overbearing use of the colon. A colon is the difference between a C and a B in a term paper, between a cum and a magna in a thesis. The colon is one of the guts of Harvard College...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 1/17/1951 | See Source »

...Donnell, Fleet Street crime reporter, was to load its members into a cart and haul them around the city "so that a jeering populace could express their contempt for men so heedless of their duties as citizens." All in all, readers who still think that King John's Magna Carta brought a fairly modern sense of justice into British courts will have their eyes opened by Author O'Donnell's blood-curdling history of Old Bailey and its even older neighbor, Newgate Gaol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In No Heathen Land | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

...great disappointment of the eleven Hawaiians and part-Hawaiians among the delegates, the constitution did not borrow from Hawaii's own Magna Carta, the "law of the splintered paddle."*After heated argument, it was struck from the preamble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Ready & Waiting | 7/31/1950 | See Source »

...unhappy signer of the Magna Carta at Runnymede...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Greatest Frenchwoman | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

...College 855 degrees were awarded, of which 346 were for the A.B. degree and nine for the S.B. degree. Sixty-six men received their degrees cum laude, 15 magna cum laude, and two summa cum laude...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Gives 355 Midyear Degrees | 3/18/1950 | See Source »

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