Word: summa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...studied, studied hard--"in a lot of dressing rooms with t.v.'s going and people doing all kinds of things that aren't printable, or on airplanes when everyone else was sleeping or getting drunk"--and ended up graduating summa...
...there will be only cursory references to my thesis because I passed it in two weeks ago. For added luck I drove on Summa St. When I was in West Palm Beach...
...meeting Bowersock also reported that the Faculty had voted to allow greater flexibility in considering students for summa cum laude who did not meet a particular grade-point average. Bowersock said "students who had proved their merit in other ways could get 'summas' as a result of this change...
Apparently not content with his sales commissions on the nuclear deal, Disini acquired the Philippine Summa Insurance Corp., which promptly won a portion of the $693 million policy sold to the National Power Corporation to cover the Bataan plant. The ambitious entrepreneur also bought controlling interest in the consortium of firms that are constructing the generator under contract from Westinghouse. But the fate of these lucrative enterprises may now be in doubt. Marcos last week ordered his Department of Industry "to look into what corporations of Mr. Disini's can be legitimately divested from him, especially those for which...
...turned in what is probably among the longest Government theses ever written at Harvard; his magnum opus, on "The Meaning of History," ran for 383 pages, plus bibliography--and that was after he had cut out two chapters, in an effort to shorten it. The effort won Kissinger a summa, but not the gratitude of some of those in the department who did not want to read it all, and some years ago a maximum page limit was set to avoid the problem in the future...