Word: studiously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: If any article could rouse an alumna, that article would be the one published in TIME, Oct. 1, on Mount Holyoke. . . . If it were possible, I would like to run an excursion for all those interested in viewing the poor "always studious," "always hard up," "drably" dressed students who eke out "drab" lives under the "stern"-pardon me-"the large, stern" shadow of Mary E. Woolley. It is a pitiful case. I never realized what the four years in which cramming for quizzes was offset by weekends in New York and Boston, dances, dates, athletics, horse shows, class entertainments...
Sweden's currency management is a very conservative affair. The "manager" is the Swedish Riksbank's Governor Ivar Rooth, who has far fewer powers than the U. S. Federal Reserve now has. Studious, young (46) Governor Rooth's first objectives were to prevent inflation and keep prices stable inside Sweden. By May 1932. with inflation averted, Governor Rooth attacked his third objective-to raise the level of wholesale prices slowly and firmly, without increasing the cost of living. He cared nothing for what foreigners were willing to pay outside for Swedish kronor, except as foreign exchange affected...
Mount Holyoke, which made testy gentlemen snort "rib factory" and "Protestant nunnery" when famed Mary Lyon founded it in 1837, is the eldest and most retiring of the five sisters. Always studious, always hard up, its students have been little changed by Depression. They dress drably and, under the large, stern shadow of Mary Emma Woolley, lead rather drab lives. There is no cinema house in South Hadley; the pictures President Woolley brings to the college are usually old, often dull. This year girls may smoke at specified times and places, a major concession on the part of Miss Woolley...
...summer of 1933 rich, studious Thomas Sovereign Gates, who gave up a Morgan partnership to become president of the University of Pennsylvania, sent his husky post-débutante daughter to a dude ranch in Wyoming. The rancher said he had orders to see that she got everything she wanted except money. After one year on the ranch,. Virginia Ewing Gates left a cowhand holding her horse, hiked off. Announced her father, positively: "She is motoring home." Last week, clad in white slacks and a man's shirt, Daughter Virginia hitchhiked into Boise, Idaho, with one Dan McCafferty, onetime...
When he died in 1911, Joseph Pulitzer made a curious mistake. He left eight-tenths of the stock in his two publishing companies to his sons, Ralph and Herbert. To his son Joseph Jr., whom he apparently considered less able than the others, he left one-tenth. Under studious Ralph and socialite Herbert the World slowly lost most of its prestige and all its profits. Under able young Joseph the Post-Dispatch continued affluent and influential. When the wrecked World was sold in 1931, the Post-Dispatch remained the last monument to the liberal, crusading principles of Pulitzer journalism...