Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate ex-Rhodes Scholar James William Fulbright of Arkansas suggested a two-way traffic in education. Said he last week :"I just started to thinking one day . . . [how] friendship between China and ourselves was greatly influenced by the Boxer Rebellion." The indemnity China paid to the U.S. supported a similar plan, sent many Chinese on scholarships to the U.S. "The result," says Fulbright, ". . . was to make them actually feel that we were civilized . . . and interested in their welfare. That kind of feeling is fundamental to not having war every 20 years...
...least five, classes hardly missed a recitation last week. The teachers' places had been taken by a posse of students. At Lincoln High the 17-year-old football captain taught English and gym. Pretty Stella Bymakos stepped to the head of English 10B, and a scholar muttered: "Why couldn't it have been this week instead of last that I had to stay after school...
...body do for me?"). Editor Ray has also included enlightening extracts from Thackeray's private diaries and account-books, scores of his sketches, brief biographies of his chief correspondents, explanatory footnotes-in short, practically everything that could be helpful to the general reader and valuable to the scholar...
...father and his 18-year-old son-the father a scholar, the son a filial zealot-set out to record the folk songs of the U.S. When John Lomax had broken his son to the trail, young Alan went on alone. Between them the Lomaxes recorded 10,000 songs, many of which had never been heard more than five miles from the prisons, corrals or lumber camps where the Lomaxes found them...
...even scholars, however, agree on some of Bruegel's details. The matter of the bridegroom in Bruegel's Rustic Wedding (see cut), for instance, has long been a matter of high dispute. Which is he? Viennese Scholar Gustav Glük pointed to the glutton seated halfway down the table with the spoon in his mouth, perhaps because he is the only man looking straight out of the canvas. But his unimportant position at the festive board seems to rule him out. Baron van der Elst (The Last Flowering of the Middle Ages) decided that the groom just...