Word: bookishness
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UNTIL a generation or so ago, most archaeologists were bookish scholars, at home among long-dead languages; they did their best work using ancient records as guidebooks. In this way, Schliemann found Homer's Troy under an undistinguished mound in western Turkey...
...Never-Sweats. The son of a professor of philosophy at Ohio's College of Wooster, Karl Compton hardly seemed the type destined for so distinguished a career. Unlike his bookish brother Arthur, who had written a serious treatise on elephants' toes at the age of ten, Karl was the friendly campus hero who captained the Wooster football squad and pitched on a local baseball team known as the "Never-Sweats" (the Never-Sweats' catcher: a young fellow named Ben Fairless, now boss of U.S. Steel). Eventually, however, he got his M.A. at Wooster, later taught at Portland...
...clothes prop . . . The green grass heaved in waves . . . our speed was terrific"). Novelist Ford Madox Ford showed him how to "twitch one ear without moving the other"; he went for a drive "accompanied by Henry James riding a bicycle," and a man named Jack Galsworthy, who had bookish aspirations, taught him to keep his head when others all about were losing theirs, by taking charge at the Garnett home when the Garnett puppy was discovered dragging a rotten bullock's head into the living room...
...went to high school, but he always worked too, first as a delivery boy, later as a Western Union messenger. Though small, frail and sickly looking, he bicycled solemnly around the streets from 3 p.m. to 11, dutifully turning over his earnings to the family. Hyman was an earnest, bookish student, but his eight-hour job with Western Union did not help him get the best marks...
...bookish, spectacled Professor Sweet is considered something of a revolutionary: he thinks that elementary Latin teaching is all wrong, and he is doing his best to prove it. He preached his doctrine at Philadelphia's William Penn Charter School, finally won a professorship at Michigan. Last year the Carnegie Corporation decided to let him carry his crusade even further, gave him a grant for a special summer Latin workshop...