Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bring him fame of a sort and big headlines back home. The discovery came when he commendably tried to find out what had happened to one of his constituents. Pilot Gerald Lester Murphy. Murphy disappeared and was reported murdered after telling how he piloted a plane that carried Basque Scholar Jesus de Galindez to an appointment with death in the Dominican Republic (TIME, April...
...research extensively and to teach at the same time, Byse noted. Therefore, to help fulfill the dual responsibility of law schools, he suggested increased financial aid for legal research. If funds were used to enlarge faculties, each professor could focus his attention, both as a teacher and a scholar, on a particular section of the law, he explained...
...acquiring a tea service for the social amenities. Best of all, he had a yen to play rugby. After all, he had been good at games back in the U.S., and he stood a lean, big-boned 6 ft. 1½ in., 205 Ibs. The rugby prospect: Rhodes Scholar and Infantry Lieut. Pete Dawkins, 21, No. 10 man in his class at West Point (1959), first captain of cadets, baritone in the cadet choir, captain of the undefeated football team, and All-America halfback...
...colleges. Their rooms, hardly any two of them similar, are variations on a basic polygonal plan, look out on courts and open passageways that Saarinen feels are "not unlike a small Italian hill-town street." The interiors, done in stone, oak and plaster, will be designed to suggest the scholar's study rather than the clubman's rumpus room...
...gift of $500,000 "to encourage spiritual communication between men of different religious faiths" will make the construction possible. By means of a "sympathetic study of the religions of the world," each scholar in the center "may gain a clear insight and firmer faith in the truth of his own religion," according to terms of the donation...