Word: studiously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wanted to see what they were doing with electric lights at the Chicago Columbian Exposition. In 1919, after getting a D. S. M. for War work, he returned to General Electric, surprised everyone when he was made president of the company in 1922. His daughter Henrietta is as studious as her father was. She works in the Harvard Astronomical Observatory. His brother Herbert Bayard never was particularly studious. Nine years younger than Gerard, Herbert went to Harvard, returned to his hometown, St. Louis, to work for the Post-Dispatch. The family, which still owns one of the biggest shoe stores...
...Author has enriched his pages with painstaking scholarship, has attained some of the flavor of the historical novels of Scott and Stevenson. But only in the last chapters of The Blanket oj the Dark does his story drop its studious tempo, achieve the needed breathlessness of cloak-&-sword drama. Aged 55, John Buchan served in the War as London Times correspondent and as intelligence officer, has written a capable history of it. He lives at Oxford, serves as Member of Parliament besides writing and publishing. Says he: "I have to live on a very strict schedule. From Monday to Friday...
...Swick, 27, finished his interneship at Mount Sinai three years ago. He is a tall, muscular young man, with a ruddy complexion, bushy reddish brown hair, blue-grey eyes. He was studious, willing to work nights on an Arbeit (research problem). Dr. Emanuel Libman, always eager to help talent, gave young Dr. Swick funds to study urology in Germany...
...joviality, learning, stimulation and insight that his every patient, student and colleague revered Sir William Osler as a demigod. For more than a decade (he died in 1919 at Oxford whither he had gone from Johns Hopkins), Medicine has agreed that there never was a studious, teaching practitioner like him. A request for a list of living U. S. doctors who approach Osler in knowledge, expertness and teaching last week brought answers from a jury representative of the profession. Out of 36 different names suggested as great in the U. S., the jury agreed only on the Brothers Mayo...
Northwestern University at Chicago has Professor Arthur Isaac Kendall, 54, who except for a three-year recess at Washington University has been there 21 years. He is one of the top U. S. bacteriologists, with training and Work at Harvard, Canal Zone, Rockefeller Institute, New York City's studious Board of Health. He is a Doctor of Public Health, not of Medicine. Bacterial chemistry and metabolism had been the main fields of his research until he detoured to the study of intestinal bacteriology. That detour became a main road which led him to last week's pronouncement...