Word: studious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next ten years the bylines of the Herricks were familiar to the Tribune's 770,000 readers. John, quiet, studious-looking, became a crack member of the paper's Washington bureau, lately covering the Senate. Genevieve ("Geno") developed into one of the ablest women reporters at the Capital. When Mrs. Roosevelt moved into the White House and began holding weekly press conferences, "Geno's" job became that much more important...
...Manchukuo felt big. Next day he felt small. Newswoman Jane Grant made the Puppet Emperor feel big by interviewing him, with utmost reverence, for the New York Times. She backed out of His Majesty's presence and rushed off to cable: "The Emperor's face is studious and interesting and very expressive. At mention of any subject outside routine, his face lighted, his features were suddenly alive and his eyes were seen to be glowing with interest even behind his darkened glasses." Next evening the hollow-eyed Manchu puppet who lives with a small Manchu Court at Hsinking...
...soldier. The story lingers admiringly with such illustrious voyageurs as Leif the Viking, Marco Polo, Diaz and Vasco da Gama, Columbus and Magellan, Livingstone and Stanley. Doughty and Lawrence, Peary, Scott and Shackleton, but does not neglect a multitude of colorful, less familiar figures. There is Hsuan-tsang, the studious, well born Buddhist monk who, fortified by a dream, passed beyond the Great Wall in 629 A. D., set out across the grim Gobi, finding his way by the bones and droppings of camels. Troubled by mirages, once nearly dying of thirst when he dropped his waterskin, Hsuan made himself...
Manhattan Melodrama (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) opens spectacularly with the General Slocum disaster out of which are tossed two orphaned boys into Manhattan's East Side. One is studious while the other shoots craps. Years later the student has become district attorney, the crapshooter a top-money gambler. If Jim Wade (William Powell) is straight as a die, Blackie Gallagher (Clark Gable) is crooked as his own dice. Gallagher's sleek mistress (Myrna Loy) loves him honestly, leaves him when he refuses to make her an honest woman. In Harlem's Cotton Club she falls in love with...
...first annual report, President Conant made the statement that "a satisfactory balance must be struck between teaching and research," few persons thought that this was anything more than the traditional reference to the traditional, but long-forgotten ideal of combining in one man the brilliant lecturer and the studious laboratory worker. Apparently this reference was more than a meaningless formality, for today the President has acted...