Word: studiously
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...main studious interests at Harvard lay in the field of natural history. The most conspicuous things in his room were his rifle, his hunting kit, and his trophies of the chase. He always had live turtles and insects in his study, and Mark Sullivan recalls "the excitement caused by a particularly large turtle, sent by a friend from the southern seas, which got out of its box one night and started toward the bathroom in search of water...
...remote, but was actually considered a queer youth. William Roscoe Thayer, a class behind T. R., could see none of the "charm that he developed later ...he was a good deal of a joke... active and enthusiastic and that was all." A contemporary Boston debutante noted that he was "studious, ambitious, eccentric--not the sort to appeal at first...
...make up for the first mistake of one of its graduates by de-emphasizing the game. This is a Good Thing. However, the ticket business has just become more and more Evil, creeping in to undermine the healthy vigor of intellectual life. Fine young men who would otherwise be studious and Good now spend much of their time trying to get a date at least ten days before each game and the rest trying to remember that ticket applications are due "before 5 P.M., Wednesday." For those who fail at either task, life becomes so complicated that salvation is well...
Camillien Houde's Montreal (pop. 1,595,000) has changed, and no one has done more to change it than slight, studious-looking Mayor Drapeau. A political unknown, he shot to prominence as prosecutor (1950-53) in a probe of Montreal vice in the '40s, when gambling czars ran up a $100-million-a-year business and bawdyhouses never closed. He proved police collusion with such evidence as a row of doors nailed to a wall so that cops could "padlock" vice dens without offending the underworld; 20 cops were later fined or fired. Only four weeks after...
Soldier Eisenhower's studious bent recently led him to consider, then turn down, an offer from a big Eastern school to become a teacher-on the offer's own merits, not because the alternative would embarrass his father or the Army. He is determined to make the Army his career. Says he: "I'm an infantry officer one thousand percent...