Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bring these all-but-forgotten church fathers back into their own, a group of 84 Roman Catholic scholars in the U.S. and Canada have undertaken a head-spinning job-the translation of 300 patristic writings, to be published in a set of 72 volumes called The Fathers of the Church. The idea for the series came from an Augustine scholar, Dr. Ludwig Schopp, a New York rare book dealer who three years ago transmitted his enthusiasm, to Publisher Anthony Cima...
...Thinker. A stocky, powerfully built man with a scholar's face, Simonsen is not just a moneymaker. Intellectual as well as industrialist, he founded the São Paulo School of Economics, has written 17 books, including the definitive two-volume Economic History of Brazil. Recently he was elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters. He is president of the Brazilian Red Cross, belongs to a hatful of foreign scientific societies. In the Senate, where he is regarded as the best-dressed member, Simonsen takes his work seriously. He seldom speaks from the floor, but puts in hard licks...
...Republican campaign for an income-tax cut, noisily led by Minnesota's Harold Knutson (who insisted that taxes should be the No. 1 business at the special session), got unexpected support last week from a distinguished scholar. Speaking in Boston, Harvard's President James B. Conant reminded the U.S. people that taxes are a powerful tool in shaping the U.S. social and political structure...
...swarthy, Canadian Rhodes Scholar, Gelber is a professional diplomat as well as an ex-professor. After teaching international relations at the University of Toronto, he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1943, and worked in what he call "ricochet political warfare," before taking his present...
...years which had to be sloughed off for the sake of something really important at the core." The jig isn't up: "this way they won't label me a planner and I can get my work done." People got awfully excited about a word. Gaus is a scholar alive with excitement about the thing happening...