Word: poring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...politician, but an ambitious careerist, Brauchitsch had studied hard during the years he spent in a swivel chair. He mastered his own specialty, artillery, then went on to pore over the more theoretical aspects of warfare. He became a firm believer in a strong defense as a prelude to any kind of warfare, and, with Adolf Hitler's, his eyes were turned to the East as the next battleground for the Reich...
...little Anna. Every racing day for nearly two years Peewee Punter Elkins has played a Daily Double (a pair of horses picked to win the first and second races of the day's card). But he always picked the wrong combination. Instead of quitting, he continued to pore over form charts, continued to back up his judgment with...
...simpler scheme than Miss Thompson's for getting Jews out of Germany, and one already in use has been discovered by German Jews themselves. Every day dozens of Jews file into U. S. consulates and offices of U. S. firms to pore over New York City and Chicago city directories. From these they copy addresses of U. S. Jews to whom they might be related, hoping that letters to the U. S. will bring new-found relatives and sympathizers willing to arrange their passage...
Hulking, booming Otto Neurath, who gives the impression of oozing vitality from every pore, is a social scientist of international distinction. Son of the late Economist Wilhelm Neurath, he was born about 50 years ago in Vienna, became a professor of economics at Vienna's commercial Hochschule. In that city he founded and directed for nine years a museum of social and economic sciences. Of strong socialist leanings in politics, he now lives in The Hague, is writing a book to be called The Life of Modern Man. Some years ago. Dr. Neurath devised a method of conveying social...
...been there for several weeks, now, slaving over what he hoped would some day turn into a Senior thesis. He did not particularly care for his thesis, for he had a particular dread of being shut up in a poorly lighted place for hours on end, compelled to pore through book after book, article after article, searching for the headwaters of the fountain of knowledge, a spring which often seemed as elusive as the fountain of youth once sought by Ponce de Leon...