Word: studiously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...burning squadron off Santiago in 1898 and for commanding the naval transport Plattsburg 20 years later. Gobs who wondered whether CINCUS Bloch would be as stern a disciplinarian as CINCUS Hepburn were last week enlightened by his sister, Mrs. Stella Bloch of Bowling Green, Ky.: "He is sensitive, studious, generous to a fault but always ready to fight when teased...
John Bakeless adds to this small list a careful, 404-page biography of Marlowe that pulls together a mass of recently discovered Marlowe material, explodes a few hoary Marlowe legends, but leaves the poet as mysterious and romantic as ever. Making a studious attempt to avoid scholarly language, Mr. Bakeless nevertheless spends much time answering earlier scholars, tracks many incorrect interpretations down many blind alleys...
...suave as O'Keeffe but not so austere were the portraits by Russian Pavel Tchelitchew in the swank, palette-shaped Julien Levy Gallery. A studious but fashionable virtuoso, Painter Tchelitchew showed Manhattanites a notable grab bag of tricks, from Byzantine golden backgrounds to the academic delicacies of silverpoint...
Softspoken, studious Francisco Franco Bahamonde is no university man. He was born in Galicia 45 years ago, son of the commandant of the Ferrol naval base. In the tradition of a thoroughly militaristic family, elder Brother Nicolas went into the navy, second son Francisco went into the Infantry Academy at Toledo's Alcazar at the age of 14. In due time youngest brother Ramon Franco went into the aviation service. Shockheaded, wild-eyed Brother Ramon Franco was the first member of the family to make world headlines. In 1926, widely hailed as the "Spanish Lindbergh," he flew non-stop...
...Last year he was barely beaten by Archie Williams in the 400-metre race at the Olympics, where he anchored Great Britain's victorious 1,600-metre relay team. Asked before the Princeton-Cornell meet whether he planned to run against the clock or the pack, studious Captain Brown parried: "I'll do the best I know...