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When the word has a specific meaning rather than being a simple expression of quantity, it is pluralized as an ordinary noun: Last season he scored eight hundreds [=scores of at least 100 runs in cricket]. The same applies to other numbers: My phone number consists of three fives and four sixes.
The Flyers and Rangers alumni gathered for a combined team picture after the game. An alumni game between former Flyers and Rangers players was played on December 31. [ 9 ] The game was broadcast live by Versus , CBC Television , and Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia , with a tape-delay broadcast on MSG Network . [ 10 ]
The word comes from Latin, meaning nurslings, pupils or foster children, derived from alere "to nourish". [1] The term is not synonymous with "graduates": people can be alumni without graduating, e.g. Burt Reynolds was an alumnus of Florida State University but did not graduate. The term is sometimes used to refer to former employees, former ...
The alumni game featured 30 former NHL players, with the NHL alumni team beating the Panthers alumni team 15-11 in a game that featured two 30-minute periods and a running clock.
The problem seems to be that you want to use the "alumni" category only for "graduate alumni". "Alumni" means both graduate alumni and non-graduate alumni. If you want to make a distinction, you need two non-overlapping categories. "Alumni" overlaps both. - Nunh-huh 01:42, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
One of the three basic legal precepts in the Digest of Justinian I. alumnus, or, alumna: pupil: Graduate or former student of a school, college, or university. Plural of alumnus is alumni (male). Plural of alumna is alumnae (female). a mari usque ad mare: from sea to sea
The Flyers were founded in 1967 as one of six expansion teams, increasing the size of the NHL at that time to 12 teams. [ 2 ] Since the franchise was established, the team has had 20 captains , [ 3 ] including Bobby Clarke , who captained the Flyers to two Stanley Cups in 1973–74 and 1974–75, and is the only player to have scored over 1,000 ...
No Super Bowl has ever been contested without a Big 33 alumnus. [citation needed] [as of?] While the game was originally played with the best 33 players in each state (hence its name), the organizers added a 34th player to give kickers a chance to be separate of the 33 count as to give one more non-kicker a chance to be named to the Big 33.