Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harold? Who was the man, who at the moment when British socialism had scarcely begun its momentous job, broadcast views so sure to disturb moderate Britons? To some, slim, aloof Professor Laski is just an "inoffensive scholar" (19 books and innumerable articles). To some, he is socialism's No. 1 intellectual soapboxer. To others, in his own words, he is a combination Guy Fawkes and Trotsky, a "reincarnation of Palmer, the Poisoner...
...Foreign Minister (a post in which Premier T. V. Soong had hitherto doubled) the Government (or Chiang) appointed Wang Shih-chieh, 54, lawyer, educator, scholar and veteran administrator. A European-educated liberal (Universities of London and Paris), Dr. Wang has long advised Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek on foreign affairs. Last year he served as the Central Government's chief representative in its bootless negotiations with the Communists. As Information Minister since last November, he considerably liberalized the censorship...
From such original sources as Edward Winslow (the Pilgrim's chief spokesman) and Governor William Bradford, a Denver-born author and scholar named George Findlay Willison has pieced together a brisk history of the Plymouth colony which should go far toward answering questions like this one. His Saints and Strangers is a far cry from the textbook story. His Pilgrim Fathers are as inept a crew of pious pioneers as ever tackled a howling wilderness...
Microfilm (using much greater reductions than are now common) could reduce the Encyclopaedia Britannica to the size of a matchbox, might even store the whole printed record of the human race in one moving van. All the information that the most learned scholar needs could be filed in one end of a desk...
Recent threats of that eminent physician and scholar, apple-faced "Doc" Reichard, seem to bear this out such succulent meals doth he prepare...