Word: studious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, setting up a board to administer his brand new Social Security Act, President Roosevelt named John G. Winant chairman for a six-year term. Appointed to a four-year term on the Social Security Board was Second Assistant Secretary of Labor Arthur J. Almeyer, 44, studious, Wisconsin-born statistician and social scientist. For a two year term the President picked Vincent Morgan Miles, 48, Fort Smith, Ark. lawyer, onetime member of the Democratic National Committee...
Children are naughty solely because they are ill, unhappy or untrained. This simple explanation of the most colossal of parents' domestic problems underlies the first textbook in English on the personality disorders of children. In Child Psychiatry* published last week, Professor Leo Kanner of Johns Hopkins, a rosy-cheeked, studious man of 41, married and genuinely fond of children, prepared his explanation for the immediate use of parents, uncles, aunts, doctors, judges, sociologists, teachers...
...Heaven, studious, introspective Emperor Hirohito, distracted Palace officials rushed with tidings that the Divine Monarch's youngest brother, His Imperial Highness Prince Sumi, 19, had just been bitten by a dog. According to official announcements both dog and prince were "detailed for observation" in Narashino Military Hospital but at latest reports neither had shown signs of rabies and Prince Sumi's wound was called slight...
...most important news which the studious editor of the American Journal of Roentgenology, Dr. Lawrence Reynolds of Detroit, had to impart to his readers last week was that two English x-ray experts have completed the first x-ray studies of how long the healthy human stomach requires to digest various kinds of foodstuffs...
...time Freshman be considered as adult human beings, and their requests given the attention they deserve. At least a share of alleged profits made in the past by the Dining Halls would he well spent giving Freshman with ten o'clocks an opportunity to enjoy the sleep of the studious...