Word: studiously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...busts of Franklin, Voltaire, Lafayette and John Paul Jones, and an allegorical engraving of Franklin's genius by Jean Honore Fragonard. Paintings began with Harvard's stiff, colonial portrait of Franklin at about the age of 42, attributed to the early New England painter, Robert Feke. A studious characteristic pose was that of the famed "thumb portrait," done in London...
Like Mr. Joyce Mr. Ellis will still be accessible to the studious minded, but if any of the pages disappear, boys, we know who took them...
...much power does it draw in operation, that the lights in Perkins flicker and dim while the transmitter is in operation, thus interfering with the graduate's studious activities...
...believes in old-fashioned all-around dentists, grows sarcastic on the subject of single-track specialists. Elected president for 1936 last week was Dr. Leroy Matthew Simpson Miner, dean of Harvard's Dental School, president of the New England Dental Society. Bespectacled Dr. Miner, who looks almost as studious as he is, is that rara avis, a doctor both of Dentistry (Harvard) and of Medicine (Boston University). Incoming president, elected last year, is Dr. George B. Winter, author of a book on wisdom teeth, famed authority on extracting. He has a research laboratory on the farm near St. Louis...
...French Revolution had already passed through its stages of exaltation, flowery speeches and grandiose proposals, when in the hot summer of 1793, Charlotte de Corday sat in a dim house in Caen, embroidering on a piece of silk the question: "Shall I, shall I not?" A cool, gracious, studious maiden of 24, she was asking herself if she should assassinate Jean-Paul Marat, President of the Jacobins, diseased, crippled, doomed fanatic who called himself "the rage of the people." The mood of ecstasy that Charlotte de Corday, as a follower of Rousseau, had experienced when the Declaration of the Rights...