Word: studiously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Homeric was the proxy fight launched by tall, studious Langbourne Meade Williams Jr. in 1928 before the ink was fairly dry on his Harvard Business School diploma. On his side was the family banking house into which he had been born 25 years before, the firm of John R. Williams of Richmond, Va. On the other was the established, close-mouthed management of the $19,303,681 Freeport Texas sulphur syndicate headed by old E. P. Swenson, onetime board chairman of Manhattan's powerful National City Bank...
Archeologists digging this year near the Chancellery building in Vatican City came upon five sculptured panels. By last week these were generally believed to be part of the Triumphal Arch of Tiberius. One of the carvings bore the only likeness of the studious emperor as an old man (he did not ascend the throne until...
Since it really got down to work 21 years ago, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (founded by Act of Congress in 1915) has turned out many a valuable contribution to aircraft and engine design. Its studious scientists, working in a grotesque collection of wind tunnels and other research machinery at Langley Field, Va., can point to NACA discoveries (cowlings, wing designs, etc.) on every airplane flying today...
...Since studious, balding Clare Bunch, 36, took over St. Louis' Monocoupe Corp. four years ago and found only $20 in the bank account, he has made things hum at that tidy little airplane factory. Oil-stained apostle of hard work, he slept in the plant, did all his own test-flying, worked with the factory hands when he was not busy at the drawing board improving the basic Monocoupe, a two-seated monoplane ($3,875), or designing a bigger two-engined job. Last week, with the bank account considerably more than $20, Clare Bunch lifted his nose from...
When spectacled, studious John M. Cassells (a onetime Rhodes Scholar, later a Harvard instructor) was a youth, he worked in a wholesale fruit house. One of his functions was to mix bad peanuts with sound ones. He found the job particularly disagreeable because he was a Sunday School teacher. Mr. Cassells became interested in consumers' problems. Year and a half ago, when the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation gave Stephens College in Columbia, Mo. about $40,000 a year to found an Institute for Consumer Education, Stephens took John Cassells, then 37, from Harvard, made him director of its Institute...