Word: studious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...early months of the Tunisian fighting, in the later months when he was shaping the Seventh Army, a more balanced impression of General Patton had got about. "Gorgeous George," "Old Blood & Guts," who had once cultivated the spectacular impression, was also a patient and careful and studious man, a field officer with a good staff mind...
...obscure corner of Washington's huge Commerce Department Building, two mild young statisticians completed a routine slide-rule job. Their latest release seemed nothing special to small (5 ft. 4 in.), studious Oregonian Tynan Smith and stocky (5 ft. 10 in., 185-lb.), studious New Yorker Robert Sherman (35), the Department's experts on corporation profits. But it came at an explosive moment in U.S. history: labor is howling harder than ever for higher wages, farmers are insisting on higher prices-and the Commerce Department study alleged that U.S. corporations made 18% more money after taxes...
...last week, House Freshman Fulbright, unknown even to many of his colleagues, became momentarily the nation's most publicized lawmaker. A deluge of fan mail (10-to-1 in favor) descended on his desk. Interviewers discovered that the first-termer from Fayetteville was young (38), smart (Rhodes scholar), studious (onetime president of the University of Arkansas), aggressive (lacrosse ),"hardheaded (businessman, farmer). Asked how long it took him to write his one-sentence resolution, he replied philosophically: "Fifteen years...
Lieut. Commander John Smith Thach, whose rich voice came from the sound track, has busied himself with air tactics since the early '30s, with a combination of studious analysis and flying virtuosity rarely found in fighter pilots. Result of this preoccupation aloft and on the ground is that today Navy fighters call Thach "the Navy Chennault" and universally use his tactics. They know they are good; Thach himself proved them in battle...
Civil war in the U.S. within a decade after the peace, and the loss of freedom on the North American continent seem serious possibilities to Harvard's shrewd, studious President James Bryant Conant. Last week, in an article in the May Atlantic Monthly entitled "Wanted: American Radicals," he proposed some preventives...