Word: studiously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Good Marriage. Shivers (rhymes with rivers) was born Oct. 5, 1907 at Lufkin, where his father, Robert A. Shivers, was clerking in a store. Later, the elder Shivers practiced law at Woodville, then became a district judge at Port Arthur. Young Allan, a studious boy, hung around the courthouse so much that he acquired a nickname: "Judge...
...youngest (26) man elected to the Texas senate up to that time. He soon won recognition as a studious, hardworking legislator. In the 1936 special session, he helped draft old-age-assistance legislation and was considered "almost a New Dealer...
...letters "deservedly among the most famous which have come down to us"; but this is strictly a scholar's opinion. On the few occasions when Gray kicked up his heels his letters brightened, but for the most part they reflect exactly the noiseless tenor of his studious...
...Harriman's Union Pacific Railroad profits and other phenomenally successful Wall Street ventures. Averell was a senior at Yale when he was elected to U.P.'s board of directors, and he graduated ('13) into a vice-presidency of the railroad. He was studious in his business dealings, invested carefully in shipping, commercial aviation and investment banking (Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.). In 1928-irritated by Republican high-tariff policy-he turned Democrat and began the first of a series of investments in the Democratic Party...
...beginnings. His parents grew up in that highly literate wave of immigration that a century ago brought to America the civilization of the Rhineland, Beethoven and Brahms, a respect for learning and a tenderness towards the unfortunate. The Lippmanns were comfortably off. Walter was an only child. A studious, argumentative, handsome boy of 17, he took up his abode at Weld Hall in the Harvard Yard and proceeded to make a name for himself. It was Harvard College's most vivid moment. Eliot was president. William James of still teaching. Fellow students of the famous class of 1910 were...