Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mealy eye" or new boy was not entirely auspicious. "Do you like Mr. Taylor?'' he asked the headmaster's wife after an early taste of Cheam's stern discipline. The experienced Mrs. Taylor countered expertly: "Do you, Philip?" she asked. "No." said the young scholar with flat finality...
Mindful of the Big Ten's code of football purity and eager to show that service with Coach Duffy Daugherty's undefeated assassins does not curtail a young scholar's other activities, Michigan State's athletic department posed hefty (6 ft., 200 Ib.) sophomore Guard Russ Kelly, 25, with his four major courses: Nick, 7, Kurt, 6, Marilyn, 4, and Terry...
...until World War II, the hard core of American science was to a large extent the individual scholar working alone and voluntarily sharing his work with like-minded people. But then came radar and the atomic bomb and the "need to do something about these quickly. The pace was speeded up, and every available young man was thrown into the effort. As many of these young men were not yet in a position to work freely on their own, and as much of the effort was of a military and secret nature, scientific tasks were divided up by the [scientific...
...monthly will continue to expound ethics, and the literary contests begun in the sage's time will be revived. The Confucian Ballet of the Imperial City of Hue, which has rehearsed for ten years without a public performance, patiently continues, behind closed doors, to seek perfection. Boasted one scholar on last week's feast day: "Confucius will remain the model of perfection for 10,000 generations to come...
...overflow crowd in Sanders Theatre reacted with a violent outburst of mingled cheers and catcalls to the finger-pointing accusation of Professor George E. Kirk, a British scholar now associated with the Center for Middle Eastern Studies here...