Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...help here, because all they can do is pound home a few dozen essential facts, and perhaps hand down a two-bit stock interpretation of these facts. If the exam questions involve looking at the matter in a different context or from an unexpected angle, the tutored scholar is caught flatfooted...
...boys have been chosen (by examinations) each year for the scholarships-$250 a year for four years (plus free tuition if they go to Columbia University). All told, 551 boys (mostly sons of immigrants) were chosen. In these boys a round $1,000,000 was invested. A Columbia Pulitzer Scholar, Harry Schwartz,, having investigated to see what 50 years of the Pulitzer scholarships had produced, now shows that Chauncey Depew talked through his top hat. Having tracked down 268 of the 366 living Pulitzer graduates, he reported...
...scholar, a prosecutor, sent Gangster "Legs" Diamond to jail...
...scholar built several of the biggest U. S. hydroelectric plants...