Phi Bete
Americannoun
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a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
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Phi Beta Kappa.
Example Sentences
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There he set pass-catching records that stood for more than 20 years, made All-Ivy and Phi Bete and spurned a Philadelphia Eagles offer in order to go to graduate business school.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is Sanford Greenberg, 25, president of the senior class at Columbia, Phi Bete, Ph.D. from Harvard, George Marshall Scholar at Oxford, special assistant to the White House science adviser and friend of Folk Rocker Art Garfunkel, saying: "You've got to live with the nitty-gritty, man."
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If the Phi Bete does not leap ahead, does the campus politician?
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A Phi Bete graduate of Occidental College in Los Angeles, he was a Mormon missionary for three years.
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He is a Phi Bete from Dartmouth, flew with Rickenbacker in World War I, graduated in reporting from the cooperative City News Bureau, from which he hires up to 18 bright young newsmen a year.
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