Word: studious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finding "more pleasure in disagreeing with other Lutherans than in agreeing with them." He urged them to "discern our three-fold responsibility today, for our inner unity, for unity with all Lutherans and for unity with all Christians." But unity, he declared, should be on a basis of "extremely studious discrimination." In the Lutheran basket, the chief egg upon which the United Lutheran Church looks with favor is the American Lutheran Church (some 500,000 members...
...Central Pacific over the Sierra Nevadas, persuaded Crocker, Stanford, Hopkins and Huntington (then Sacramento merchants) to back him, battled for Federal support, broke with his partners, and died in 1863, at 37, as the road he had dreamed about for years was at last being built. For Crazy Judah-"studious, industrious, resourceful, opinionated, humorless, and extraordinarily competent"-Author Lewis has great respect. The line he surveyed across the mountains, rising 7,000 feet in less than 20 miles, was the boldest feat of railroad engineering undertaken up to that time...
Last month the trustees thought they had found their man: Rev. John Crocker, 38, studious, absentminded, enthusiastic high Churchman, Episcopal Chaplain of Princeton University, a graduate of Groton. Harvard (where he played end on the football team), Oxford. Grotties speak of "Jack" Crocker as logical successor to Groton's 80-year-old Headmaster Endicott Peabody; and he himself has declined nomination for the bishoprics of New Jersey and Vermont. Last week, after long pondering St. Paul's School's offer, he returned a nolo docere, turned down...
...packed London's grimy Old Bailey courtroom last week with skilled physicians from Harley and Wimpole Streets, earnest young medical students, smart socialites. Defendant in the case, charged with performing an abortion on a 14-year-old girl who was seven weeks with child, was a lean, greying, studious man, Dr. Aleck William Bourne, 52, top-flight gynecologist and obstetrician...
...Chamberlain won't worry about the work Harvard men have to do because they are very "studious" anyway...