Word: studiously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mine will over go to Harvard, no indeed, not with them around. My son wants to go to your school, but you can bet I'm not going to let him. He is the studious type, a sort of historian, so I'm going to send him to Stanford...
Deserving indeed of a place on TIME'S list of U. S. artists is New York's Edward Hopper. Bald, shy, studious, 52, he started as a figure painter, earned his living for years as a magazine illustrator. He now devotes himself almost exclusively to landscapes, painting the same sort of villas, lighthouses, railroad yards as does Charles Burchfield, with whom he is usually coupled in the public mind, but with brighter color in a lighter, cheerier...
From all over Britain they came, dealers, collectors, scientists, tweedy oölogists, pale studious curates. On the auctioneer's pulpit were bids from all over the world, for here was an occasion that might not come again in a lifetime. Six Great Auk eggs, all wrapped in cotton wool and lying in little boxes, and two stuffed Great Auk skins went on sale last week in Stevens auction rooms in London. They fetched a total...
...GUIDE TO MODERN POLITICS-G. D. H. Cole & Margaret Cole-Knopf ($3). Handy handbook on current political systems of all nations by a studious married pair who also collaborate on murder stories...
...many years we have admired the originality of the Harvard Faculty in thinking up semi-studious ways of filling in a spare hour, For example, there is that society of thrill-hunters known as the Odd Volume Club. Ah to be an Odd Volumer...