Word: bookishly
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...used to ride across the veld with a well-worn copy of Plato in his saddlebag, wanted the scholarships to go not to mere "bookworms," but to well-rounded leaders-"the best men for the world's fight." As it turned out, Rhodes scholars have been on the bookish side. Certainly they are anything but the tight little band of political elite that Rhodes hoped would run the English-speaking world. Of the 2,831 selected since 1903, almost half have gone into law or education: 33 have headed colleges or universities, 44 have become judges. Medicine and science...
Mundt objected to Conant because he felt him a "too bookish sort of fellow." He added that he hasn't decided to vote against Conant, but that "a better choice could have been made...
...this reason, he pressed a more practical program in the Design School. "Architecture is so strongly tied up with practicalities and technicalities that building architects should have practical experience." He accuses the Design program of being "too theoretical and bookish," and there are many architects who agree with...
...twelve years, the State University of Iowa (enrollment: 7,200) has come to know him as a friendly, bookish man who rises at 6:45, spends the next ten hours hurrying about his campus, charging purposefully into all sorts of projects. But he is also a familiar figure far beyond his own 700 acres. Last week, when the American Council on Education wanted someone to head a new committee to study Government scientific research grants to universities ($100-150 million a year), it could think of no abler man than Virgil Hancher...
After two days in jail, spent mopping floors and getting his "aptitudes" tested, Wanger was sent off to the county's honor farm at Castaic, 50 miles from town. There he was put to work as a librarian. Between his bookish chores, Producer Wanger hoped to swing back into the old stride that had helped him turn out such hit movies as Algiers. His own occupational therapy project: working on a movie called Kansas and Pacific, which he plans to produce at Monogram after his release...