Word: studiously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brown University in Providence, R.I., one day last week, a tall, studious-looking man of 40 was escorted into Manning Hall for the purpose of being formally "introduced" to a special meeting of the faculty. Actually, no introduction was necessary: everyone in the room knew Barnaby C. Keeney as the able onetime dean of the Graduate School, and since 1953 the dean of the College. This time, however, Keeney had a new title. "With enthusiastic unanimity," the university's corporation had just elected him to be the successor to retiring President Henry Wriston (TIME, April...
Dreyfus was a brilliant, studious artillery officer who ate, slept and dreamed the army. But in a French officers' club of those days, he had two marks against him: he was stiff, studious and humorless, and he was a Jew. He refused to be cowed by the anti-Semitism of the day, through sheer ability became the first Jewish officer to be appointed to the French general staff. Suddenly, on Oct. 15, 1894, he was ordered to report to the office of the chief of staff. There a Major du Paty de Clam dictated a letter filled with secrets...
...Y.M.C.A. physical-education instructor, he grew up in a succession of cities from Mount Vernon. Iowa to San Jose, Calif, to Sault Sainte Marie, Mich. Though Lee fished in Lake Superior and watched the ships pass through the locks, he was better known as that studious young fellow in knickers who was so often with a book. At one time, he tried to be a reporter ("but I was too scared to go up and ask the right people the right questions"), later set his hand to selling ironing-board covers and potholders ("but I hated to go out each...
Apprised of his untimely death last week after a studious grandson came across the encyclopedia item, grizzled Aviator Dorozynski, a spry 76-year-old who has been living these many years in Nice, recalled that he had suffered a rib-cracking smashup in 1912, but that he had lived on to enjoy a considerable career...
...days when Harvard faculty members were asked to repeat their courses for studious young ladies across the Common, Professor Charles Townsend Copeland refused to lecture to Radcliffe classes. "We can't obliterate a natural tendency," he growled, "but why cultivate...