Word: studious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slashing fares to railroad levels. Slim, young-looking, with a muscular bulge in the jaw, Errett Cord presents a collegiate aspect despite never having gone to college. He rarely speaks his mind, but when he does he uses a language racy and rich with anatomical allusions, forceful expletives. Studious-looking with his glasses on, he might be taken for a young college instructor. Without glasses he is more apt to resemble a high-pressure magazine salesman. He has two sons by his first wife, who died in 1930. In 1931 he married Virginia Kirk Tharpe. With their baby Nancy...
...rear of the truck and began pulling out sacks of mall. There were eleven monstrous canvas bags, each sealed and franked with the impressive insignia of the United States government. Slowly and laboriously they were dragged, one at a time, up the steps to the quarters of a studious sophomore, who received in great astonishment both the bags and the black looks of the departing porters...
...Bald, studious Publisher Meyer knew General Johnson was talking about him. But what annoyed him most was the reference to the Post as a "dying newspaper." In a front page editorial Republican Meyer snapped back...
...William Hane Wannamaker. Because he had not been present to preside, he had voided the trial of a student offender by the students' Pan-Hellenic (interfraternity) Council. Next day the campus rumbled ominously. Just before midnight some 1,500 students clumped grimly into the university gymnasium, heard quiet, studious Joseph T. Shackford, president of the Student Council, urge them to be orderly but determined. Jack Dunlap, football captain-elect, announced that the rebels would take over next morning's assembly period to present grievances...
...Japanese habit is to keep the death of a national figure secret for hours or even days, the idea being that his successor can be quietly appointed by the Sublime Emperor in the interval, without too much influential squabbling or eruptions of popular unrest. One day last week studious Emperor Hirohito and shy Empress Nagako dispatched to mud-walled Changchun, the sleazy capital of their puppet state Manchukuo, a great ceremonial basket of fruit, traditional Japanese gift to the dying...