Word: studious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such is the general tenor of conversations often held between a certain famed young man and the bright young person whom he calls his wife. The famed young man has always found it difficult to grasp the inward significance of mathematical and other studious problems. The "wife," or in terms divorced from West Point slang, the famed young man's West Point roommate, is a "star man," standing in the first ten of the first class. He is good at all things studious. His name is J. A. K. Herbert. He is Captain of B Company...
Fear of being mobbed by rowdy agents of the Nationalist Government with which he is out of sympathy, has long since made patrician Scholar Hu extremely careful of his delicate, parchment-like skin. For months he has spent his studious nights in the well guarded foreign quarter of Shanghai, venturing out only by day to the suburb of Woosung where he is president of a private college called the China National Institute. Recently, however, Dr. Hu, daring much, contributed to the leading Chinese intellectual review, the monthly Crescent Moon, three articles flaying the Nationalist Government. Last week Nationalist's militaristic...
...succeeded the late Martin Barnaby Madden as Representative of Chicago's black-belt ist District, sent up the names of two young Negroes for admission to Annapolis. A third he nominated for West Point. All were boys from his District. All are high-school graduates with reputations for studious application, fine character. Laurence A. Whitfield and Claude Henson Burns are the Annapolis nominees. Alonzo Souleigh Parham, cadet major in his school's R. O. T. C., an expert with the rifle, is the West Point candidate...
...University of Des Moines came sudden stillness, peace. There were no classes for a while. But then six studious students got a court injunction restraining the trustees. Classes resumed uncertainly...
Back of that is his birth (1818) in Rhenish Prussian Treves, son of a Jewish lawyer, with a long line of learned rabbis behind the lawyer. His years at the universities of Bonn and Berlin were studious, lazy-livered, undramatic. He took his Ph. D., fought no duels. He married the daughter of a high government official. His interest always lay in philosophy and the proletariat. After journalistic ventures in revolutionary twilight zones in Cologne, Paris, Brussels, he fled with his wife, three children and faithful servant "Lenchen," to London, world's warmest haven for refugees...