Word: copiously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...replete wtih statements such as, "I resolve, therefore, in future to be more circumspect--to hoard my moments with a more thrifty spirit--to listen less to the suggestions of indolence, and so quicken that spirit of intellectual improvement to which I devote my life." In addition to copious readings in the classics, he spent a great deal of time learning French, studying botany, keeping an extensive diary, and attending to affairs legal and political...
...scouts, dropping their classmates' dossiers at doors never before darkened by a Harvard Business School man, returned with copious notes and lists of job possibilities that have produced 700 offers, many at salaries 10% to 20% higher than big firms would give. Student Association President William Schulz, 28, a West Pointer who got 50 offers, wound up starting his own small business (Homesmith Inc.-home repairs) in Palo Alto, Calif. "It was a reaction to the Organization Man idea," he says. So far, at least 30 others have taken small-business jobs, and Harvard officials, sensing a trend...
...Riverview Junior-Senior High School, a 24-classroom, $1,204,945, two-story building by Yale's Architecture Department Chairman Paul Rudolph, 40. Built round a central courtyard. Rudolph's school uses exposed steel and white brick, copious canopies for sunshade...
...doctor had seen to it that Pius XII's final agonies were photographed, and he himself took copious clinical notes on the papal pulse, temperature, elimination, and death throes. Within a week after the Pope's death, Galeazzi-Lisi solicited bids on his photographs and deathbed journal. The price list: $13,320 for an anecdotal article on his life with the Pope, to include clinical details; $8,000-later reduced to $3,200-for an hour-by-hour account of the papal agony; $3,200 for photographs of the death throes; $1,600 for a story...
...suspense over who their 125th Empress will be. To find her, the Board, whose staid members are the guardians of protocol, has canvassed the families of 860 former princes, counts, viscounts, barons and assorted daimyo (warlords). It has investigated the state of each family's finances, made copious notes on the looks, talents, and IQs of all eligible daughters. It also sent emissaries to all local ward offices, which keep such complete genealogical records that they can trace a scandal, a case of insanity or an illegitimacy back for centuries. In Japan such precautions are important: Akihito...