Word: studiously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Snug in Canterbury, Very Rev. Dean Hewlett Johnson pursues puttering studies in everything from geology to Japan and from hydraulics to Australia. Last fortnight these studious ramblings got him into trouble. He had noticed that about 3,000 Australians inhabit the Commonwealth's Northern Territory which is nearly twice the size of the Empire of Japan. Since 90,000,000 Japanese are well known to be overcrowded in their Empire, it occurred to the Very Reverend Dean that the 3,000 Australians might make room for at least a few Japanese. Speaking diffidently at Guildford, puttering Dean Johnson said...
...seems that the cut in compensation for service-connected [disabilities] has been deeper than was originally intended. The regulation and schedules will therefore be reviewed so as to effect more equitable levels of payments. ... It is not contemplated that government hospitals will be closed pending a careful, studious survey...
...title four times running (1920-1923). To do so Dorothy Locke will have to ward off the challenge of stubby Muriel Guggolz, another Salle d'Armes Vince student and teammate with Locke and Lloyd on last year's U. S. Olympic team. A studious and prudent, albeit preternaturally sly, lady with a foil, little Miss Guggolz was not fencing for the championship last week; she was unexpectedly eliminated in the trials last fortnight...
House Dinners are a little more socially enlivening than would be expected, but a visit to the common room after almost any meal reveals that fraternity has not thawed the icy rodent heart. In all things a sober, studious tenor is preserved, an anomalous condition which has several causes: many resent the appellation, "Rabbitt"; others are browbeaten by the influence of Mather, which has been aptly likened to a prison yard; but chiefly, there is a pervasive atmosphere of dignified indifference, established by the more mature residents, which, though stultifying, is not without its merits...
...grey, gaunt man with downcast eyes and stooped shoulders, Cordell Hull has been moving about the Capitol for 24 years in studious preoccupation. Only his Congressional intimates know his unspectacular worth. He has never had any practical experience as a diplomat but he has read every decision handed down by the World Court. He refuses to wear spats and carry a cane, but can recite by heart every trade barrier the world over. Laconic, when asked the time he will silently exhibit his watch instead of reading it himself...