Word: studious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...buxom, healthy, studious Dutch girl reached the age of 21 last week, celebrated by moving from her town residence at The Hague to an estate called the "House in the Wood." One and all, Dutch newspapers congratulated the young woman, but a few of the very oldest and most aristocratic news organs of Amsterdam and The Hague also dropped respectful hints...
...soon as he was big enough to turn the pinion wheels of a microscope, small and studious Bashford Dean began to study natural history. His interest in armor also began early. When he was six years old he visited the home of one Carlton Gates in Yonkers, stood for half an hour in rapt contemplation of a beautiful Maximilian helmet. Four years later Carlton Gates died, his effects were sold at auction. Ten-year-old Bashford Dean insisted on being taken to the auction, was heartbroken when the cherished helmet went for more money than he could afford. Clutched...
Architect Carlu is now head professor of architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but the Carlus live and practice in Manhattan. Their home is her studio, and more homelike than studious. But there was nothing amateur about the pictures she exhibited last week. They were gay, finely drawn, cleverly decorative in bright dressmaker's colors. They seemed eminently salable. Artist Carlu dimples as she admits that she was responsible for the sophisticated murals in the second floor lounge of Boston's Ritz-Carlton. "I did the figures," she says, "and my husband put in the landscape...
...raccoon skin coat walking celestial streets of gold. However, to one conversant with undergraduate life such a mythical place would probably contain many of the subtleties that make a college training valuable: the whimsical breaking of windows, theatres, conversation, and other things of which, it is rumored, even the studious French are not ignorant...
...present the University's policy of athletic training for all students may be said to be safely out of the experimental stage. At its inception, it had to combat such handicaps as expense, lack of facilities, opposition from the over-studious clement of the administration on one hand, from Big Crimson Team boosters on the other. But there is still a considerable distance to travel before the system can reach its goal; and it is here that the House Plan can provide an impulse. The organization of intramural sports by means of classes and fraternities has been carried about...