Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spell in the English theater, a junket to Tibet's Forbidden City of Lhasa, and his days as a Buddhist monk in Japan. He can also spin yarns about his explorations of Peru's Inca ruins and Formosa's head-hunting country. McGovern is a sound scholar withal, master of twelve languages, author of a Manual of Buddhist Philosophy, and From Luther to Hitler. He was one of the boys in the back room of Army & Navy Intelligence...
...went some of the best of Walter Lippmann, Francis Hackett, Elinor Wylie, Rebecca West, Robert Morss Lovett, Edmund Wilson. At his famous staff luncheons, everyone talked in low tones-in' deference to Croly's own shy near-whisper. In the eyes of New Republicans, Croly was a scholar journalist, and Oswald Garrison Villard, his opposite number on the Nation, a mere hotheaded warhorse. They were proud of the difference...
...Cambridge scholar, only 29 years old, was named to the Harvard University faculty yesterday as associate professor of history as 14 appointments were announced...
Professor McIlwain is best known to undergraduates for his survey on Political Theory (Gov 6) which has been flooded this year by students wanting to take a last course under the venerable scholar. Gov 6 will be taken over, next fall, by Carl J. Friedrich, professor of Government, whose Gov 5 and 121 deal mainly with modern political thought. Professor McIlwain's best known books are "The Growth of Political Theory in the West" and "The American Revolution," a Pulitzer Prize winner...
...Among the contributors: Theologian J. S. Bixler, president of Maine's Colby College; Harvard's Biblical Scholar Kirsopp Lake; Negro Sociologist W. E. B. DuBois...