Word: studious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heard by the U. S. at large. But sometimes Editor Armstrong has more to say than he can pack into the pages of his quarterly and wants to say it to more than his usual readers. On such occasions his thoughts overflow into a book, the fruit of studious reading, conservatively liberal thinking, alert observations gleaned on his annual trips to Europe. Though respectfully reviewed, his books have never been bestsellers, but last winter an extra-editorial utterance of Editor Armstrong's caught the public ear. So timely, so comprehensive, so stimulating did U. S. readers find...
...entirely dependent upon the undergraduates for obtaining the wares they deal in, they can still draw upon non-scholarship men. The University rightly reasons that the holders of scholarships are more obligated to it than others, and are therefore more subject to its legislation. If, however, the more studious men among the contributors are cut off, the emporiums must inevitably produce less abundantly. But it is doubtful that they will enter a mortal decline just because of this...
Forty years ago in a dingy town of Lanarkshire, Scotland, when Phil Murray was 10, he went down into the mines to earn his living. Eight years later, migrated to the U. S. with his family, the studious youngster came out of the mines for good. Working twelve hours a day in a Westmoreland County, Pa. mine, he complained to the weighmaster one day that he was being short-weighted, got into a quarrel about it, knocked the weighmaster down, was fired. His fellows retaliated by organizing a union, electing young Murray president, threatening a strike...
...Royal Naval College, cadets nicknamed the future George V when he was a cadet "The Sprat." Edward VIII as a cadet was "The Sardine." The more serious, studious nature of George VI made him, as a cadet, "Dr. Johnson" and later "Mr. Johnson." It was soon evident that the present King was the only scion of the Royal Family ever to show a definite mechanical bent. Ship mechanisms became his major interest. Even today His Majesty is fond of the exceedingly intricate model railways-not "toys" but "scale models" costing in some cases up to $20,000 for a complete...
...tribute to the lucidity of cotton textile spokesmen that during the last two years the studious New York Times failed to acknowledge that the Japanese import menace, about which William Randolph ("Buy American") Hearst seemed perennially overexcited, might actually materialize. One of the first alarms sufficiently well expressed to convince laymen was written for the Times last August by President Claudius Temple Murchison of the Cotton-Textile Institute. Last week President Murchison arrived in New York from San Francisco, marched modestly into the Hotel McAlpin to tell a gathering of U. S. textile men how an excellent formulation of their...