Word: writes
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Honors undoubtedly represent to the layman academic achievement of any kind, but in scholarly circles they have always indicated a particular excellence--in the writing of a thesis. The very terms-- summa, magna, and cum laude, --stem from awards given in the Middle Ages for the reading of theses or discourses. At present, however, a number of Harvard graduates get honors degrees without writing theses, through the program of Cum Laude in General Studies. While CLGS is often used to allow people with low marks as lowerclassmen to write theses, it also allows people with high marks to avoid this...
...like Communism, Fascism, Nazism, National Socialism or the New Deal, cannot do a satisfactory job if he has to denounce all the time what he is trying to explain, in order to protect himself against the charge of being a champion of all the evils of what he is writing or talking about. If, in the light of hindsight, I had to do it all over again, I probably would decide not to write and speak about Fascism as I did. I would so decide, not because I now see error in my thesis, but because I now realize that...
Early returns: Republican, 4,702 of 9,511 precincts: Eisenhower 268,373; Knowland 13,504. Democratic, 4,640 of 9,511 precincts: Stevenson 412,912; write-ins: Kefauver...
...handicapper and journalist in Baltimore, a good race-track and newspaper town. The son of the late city editor Max Ways, who gave H. L. Mencken his first job on the old Herald, young Max cubbed on the rival Sun. By the time World War II started, he was writing editorials for the Philadelphia Record. He served through much of the war with the U.S. Foreign Economic Administration, appraising enemy economies for the chiefs of staff. He came to TIME in 1945.,quickly moved up to senior editor of the INTERNATIONAL and FOREIGN NEWS sections. For the last five years...
...appeared in 1891, after J. C. Fargo, the company's third president (and younger brother of Co-Founder William Fargo), returned from Europe fuming over the difficulty of cashing letters of credit. Ordered to devise a simpler system, his staff designed a check on which the buyer would write one signature at the time of purchase, another (to prove he was the legitimate owner) when he cashed it, thus devised a form of currency that could be carried everywhere and replaced if lost or stolen...