Word: studiously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Giantism". Sharpest and most studious of criticisms were voiced in Manhattan where a Round Table Conference on Utility Regulation was being held by almost 100 commission members and regulation students. Finance Professor James Cummings Bonbright of Columbia University, Secretary of the Power Authority of the State of New York, spoke on "The Breakdown of the Public Utility Holding Company." Utilitymen read his speech with keen interest for they knew Professor Bonbright to be a cousin of the late William Prescott Bonbright and of Irving W. Bonbright, co-founders of Bonbright & Co., utility bankers...
...House member. The tutors also make many acquaintances with the students, and take most of their meals with them. The associates, however, have done little or nothing for the House except attend occasional high table dinners. The students probably represent a good "cross-section", although they tend to be studious, as witnessed by the fact that of the forty men elected to Phi Beta Kappa last autumn, Lowell claims eleven...
Albert Einstein ended two studious months at California Institute of Technology last week. At San Pedro, Los Angeles' harbor, he boarded the Hamburg-American San Francisco with Mrs. Einstein, put his pipe and violin in his stateroom with the luggage, and sought out the dining salon for "a German meal cooked as only Germans know how to cook...
...Many who attend are of that encyclopaedic turn of mind which, accepting as law the written page, declaims stereotyped phrases and frozen ideas; others are of the amiable twist that leads to futile bickering over details. The majority of those present have acquired their profound knowledge of affairs by studious cramming of text books and outline magazines; still more have never so much as visited their constituencies; and all are forced to comply in their discussions to the strict limitations imposed by the two day period and the carefully prearranged program. The mere physical character of the Model League precludes...
...scene in the saga of the Rover Boys surpassed in tension a scene enacted last week in the editorial office of the Spectator, undergraduate daily of Columbia University. At his desk was Editor Reed Harris, a dark youth of studious mien but tall, well setup. Around him stood some of his associates. Into the room, glowering, strode burly Ralph Hewitt, captain and quarterback of the football team, closely followed by even burlier William McDuffee, the team's centre. Ralph Hewitt had a copy of the Spectator in his hand. He was smoldering with anger...