Word: diligentes
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By comparing notes the German diplomats and dilettanti discovered that these two Paul Claudels are indeed one. As an Ambassador M. Claudel is diligent, experienced, indefatigable. It is only when the tasks of State are done that his soul soars on wings of triumph to a poetic and religious ecstasy...
As the teams settle into the race down the stretch, the attendance appears as considerable as ever, and the crowds of rabid U. S. gentry who mill through the turnstiles at the parks to watch the play, blaspheme the umpire, masticate peanuts, popcorn and chewing gum, are as diligent and...
The President is a diligent reader of the U. S. press. It is doubtful whether he scans the British press with equal thoroughness, doubtful therefore whether his eye lit on a passage in British papers saying:
The statement was made by President Lowell before the alumni on Graduates' Day that the success of a university should be measured by the way its undergraduates think. He pointed to the recent report of the Student Council Committee on Education as just such a standard, and one by which...
Yet there is another appeal which the Times might have made, had it chanced to widen its phraseology. If mere politics be a phase of life little less limited than academic concerns nevertheless the sum of matters beyond the academic horizon is worthy more diligent student foresight. The pitch and...