Word: studious
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...took Harvard's orotund Astronomer Harlow Shapley hours to get to the point. First he had to make a little speech, then announce the names of the eight runners-up, make them each take a bow. Finally the two winning names shot out. First prize: Dwight Taylor. Second: studious, pretty 16-year-old Caroline Stuart Littlejohn of Oklahoma City...
...athletic, Adams maintains its own squash courts in the back of the University courts on Linden street. The studious will find the library upstairs in "C" entry well supplied with texts, reference books, and fiction. And for the musically inclined, a collection of classical and semi-classical records is always on file. Those who wouldst live dangerously can test their attitude towards parietal rules against the challenge of over a dozen unguarded gates. What more could a Gold Coaster, past or present want in the way of conveniences...
Among the people who managed to make themselves at home, the individual study stalls were much the most popular, and it wasn't all the challenge of the "tip proof" chairs. The studious ones appeared to be quite at case despite the architectural and human distractions. Only in the typing booths were the original library plans thwarted--they were crowded but few of the users had their typewriters with them...
...Marion Harper Jr., fresh from Yale, got a job as office boy at McCann-Erickson, Inc., one of the six largest U.S. advertising agencies. Tall (6 ft. 1 in.), strapping (190 Ibs.) Harper was far from the outsider's idea of an advertising man. He was quiet and studious; he did not wear hand-painted ties, didn't smoke, showed not a single huckster characteristic...
...Wojnowski, Poland's consul in Milan, Italy, was a bit subtler about it but he had the same general idea. A studious, courteous, bespectacled book collector, he had never been very happy in his consulate. Last summer, after a trip home, he cut out meat, ate only tea and toast for supper and gave up buying books. Staffers wondered why he was saving his pennies. Last week they found...