Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unluckiest lad of all is Bob Brooks of F. Off to the Isle of Man and a cold climate goes our super scholar. But wait, look at the statistics! Present population of the Isle of Man; males, 6,000; females, 28,000 (under 26); babies 2. My God, Brooks you better take up the art of self protection...
Fact-minded Administrator Newton has spent a good chunk of his life making things plain. A graduate of Dartmouth (1920), a Rhodes scholar (law), a post-graduate Harvard law student, Newton's first public job as assistant U.S. attorney was to help dig into a $6,500,000 alien property fraud, come up with such plain facts that President Harding's alien property custodian, Thomas W. Miller, was sent to jail. Later, as special counsel for New York State, he investigated sewer scandals, smashed an arson ring, was named special assistant attorney general...
...Ying Sung, our Chinese researcher, is a Wellesley graduate who spent five years as Professor of Western Literature at the University of Peking. There she worked with China's foremost scholar, slight, charming Dr. Hu Shih. She came to the U.S. in 1940, broadcast one of Mme. Chiang's speeches to the Nazis in German, headed the Chinese desk at the OWI for thirteen months...
...vote last week, House Freshman Fulbright, unknown even to many of his colleagues, became momentarily the nation's most publicized lawmaker. A deluge of fan mail (10-to-1 in favor) descended on his desk. Interviewers discovered that the first-termer from Fayetteville was young (38), smart (Rhodes scholar), studious (onetime president of the University of Arkansas), aggressive (lacrosse ),"hardheaded (businessman, farmer). Asked how long it took him to write his one-sentence resolution, he replied philosophically: "Fifteen years...
Undoubtedly, the big news of the week was the baseball game between the ASOTS and the Faculty. Enthusiasm, of course, had flared for the game, for not only had the challenge come from the professor but one scholar was even heard to remark, "After we wipe up the diamond with those boys, they'll wish that they ahd been sent to Guadalcanal instead of Harvard...