Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most Rev. Giuseppe Pizzardo, 61, scholar and diplomat, who is secretary of the Sacred Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs, head of the Church's bureau of Catholic Action. Once detested by Italy's Fascists because he fought the Pope's battle with them over the matter of educating Italian youth, Monsignor Piz-zardo, like the Pope, is today disposed to collaborate with Fascism. As much as any prelate in the Vatican, he has the Holy Father's ear in business and financial affairs. Last May he was the Pope's legate to the coronation...
...With the years, the Studentship has grown in honor and dignity until today it is the ranking American scholarship in Cambridge. Because the men selected by Harvard have been scholars and leaders, too, the Harvard Scholar has become a popular and respected figure in Cambridge undergraduate life," says Wilkinson...
...hordes of moppets in San Francisco's Chinatown did a thriving business shining shoes, promising to turn over their nickels to the China war relief fund, their elders gathered in St. Mary's Square to gaze at a massive, glittering simulacrum of Dr. Sun Yatsen, the Christian scholar and republican hero who ended Manchu rule in China in 1912. Nearly 20 feet tall on its pedestal, the figure has head, hands and feet of red granite, body of stainless steel, cold-hammered to the shape of a military tunic and mandarin's skirt. Materials were provided...
...Medford, won the Charles J. Bonaparte scholarship awarded "at the end of his Junior year to that member of the class concentrating in Government who has the highest academic standing in that subject." He was also the recipient of the Palfrey Exhibition scholarship, for the most distinguished scholar in the Senior class receiving a paying scholarship...
...against a dark background of mine breakers and hills; Jury, whose procession of fat and lean brainless bourgeois figures directly recalled Daumier's treatments of the same subject; The Liberals, which presents, out on a limb, the Scientist, the Man who Sees Both Sides, the Indecisive Man, the Scholar, the Hysterical Mystic, the Infantile Man, the Man who Waits for the Right Time, while red-bannered masses see the forward and underneath...