Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mania. Not content with claiming the airplane, telegraph, radio and electric light as Russian inventions, Soviet propagandists have been staking out their claims in every branch of the arts & sciences. Among the many Russian scientists who "were discussing" evolution long before Darwin, say the propagandists, was the 18th Century scholar, Mikhail Lomonosov. Scientist Lomonosov was quite a fellow; he also invented the helicopter and developed the theory of conservation of energy...
Tsaldaris' candidate for Minister of Physical Culture declined the post. Then several minor parties proposed another coalition under a mild Byzantine scholar, nonpartisan Deputy Premier Alexander Diomedes. Tsaldaris insisted on an all-Populist cabinet with himself as Premier and for a while it looked as though he would have his way. One evening last week, all the cabinet candidates, immaculate in grey ties and white shirts, were assembled in Tsaldaris' living room, drinking Turkish coffee and waiting for a phone call from the King to summon them to the swearing-in ceremony...
...Apologies. Like the U.S. Commission on Freedom of the Press (TIME, March 31, 1947), the 17-member Royal Commission was mainly composed of nonjournalists; it was headed by Sir David Ross, provost (now emeritus) of Oxford's Oriel College and a distinguished Aristotelian scholar. As Britain's press lords paraded before the commission, they made no apologies...
...missionary to the natives of French Equatorial Africa are a bright highlight in the relations between the white race and the black. He is a philosopher who, like Spengler and Toynbee, has thought deeply about the crisis of Western culture. He is a Protestant minister and biblical scholar whose historical criticism of the New Testament, early in this century, turned out to be a theological blockbuster. Above all, he is a man who decided to turn his back on the dazzling rewards the world wanted to give him in order to serve his fellow...
...University of Michigan's Hereward T. Price, 69, roly-poly Shakespearean scholar and associate editor of the university's Middle English Dictionary. The son of a British missionary, he was born in Madagascar, went to Oxford, taught in Germany, was drafted into the German army in World War I, was captured by the Russians, escaped to edit a newspaper in Peking, finally got to Michigan in 1929. Through 20 years' teaching Professor Price never got over the wonders of Shakespeare, could hardly read a line without striding about the classroom and thundering at his students...