Word: studiously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than a campus scandal. To the whole rugged, wealthy British upper middle class (not to mention the peerage & landed gentry) it was a national calamity. They had known that the Oxford Union, that famed debating society which is the traditional school for British statesmen, has been increasingly attended by studious greasy grinds, apt to be Laborites. But what indeed was the Empire coming to when the Union sank so low last week as to adopt by a vote of 275-to-153 this proposition...
United Fruit's new President Hart is learned, studious, convivial. After leaving M. I. T. he tried farming in Jamaica, later managed the Cartagena-Magdalena Railway in Colombia (which United Fruit has just taken over from the government). In 1908 he became a director of Old Colony and United Fruit. He is famed for his ability to mix Jamaica's famed planters' punch (one part lime, two parts syrup, three parts rum), is a moving spirit in the Club of Odd Volumes, whose headquarters is a former stable on Beacon Hill. He has written three books...
...Georgian nicknames. "Soso" and "Koba." His daring robberies (which he called ''expropriations'') seemed as natural to her as his still more daring murders ("executions")?for were they all not done to get money for the Communist cause and at the orders of Nikolai Lenin, then a studious resident of London, England and a frequent visitor to the British Museum...
...vote equal to the number of its Representatives and Senators in Congress. The elective majority is 266 such votes. Nationwide presidential polls by The Literary Digest and the 26 Hearstpapers are reliable indices of what is in the political wind. The straw votes are supplemented and largely confirmed by studious political correspondents touring the country, by private business scouts, by astute politicians taking "off the record." TIME's map, no forecast, represents a summary of this mass of opinion. States have been classified as follows: 1) Republican or Democratic where straw polls give the leading candidate two-thirds majority...
...Mayor Bulganin's civic government asphalted 350.000 yards of Moscow streets. Such statistics are prime news in Russia. Strictly speaking the "Mayor" is President of the Moscow Soviet and its Presidium is the civic government. Not a burly, two-fisted "Old Bolshevik," Electrical Engineer Bulganin is small, studious, neatly dressed, a "Modern Bolshevik" much milder in type than Dictator Josef Stalin who used to blow up safes and Tsarist officials "in the name of the Revolution...