Word: studiously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Occasionally, Teacher MacDonald allows, her American sixth-graders were "sensitive and brilliant." Somehow, the troublemakers "picked it all up ... in a way that many of our more studious classes might envy." One day she read them Matthew Arnold's The Forsaken Merman, and "there was dead silence, everyone as deeply attentive as a devout congregation in church." It was one day when victory went to teacher...
Frederick L. Nyhan, deputy of the Massachusetts Selective Service Board, indicated yesterday that studious undergraduates need not worry about the draft...
...faculty, according to one department director, makes periodic attempts to "develop a more studious atmosphere." But the Core system, which is the apple of Colgate's academic eye, and is like an intensive composite of Harvard's General Education program combined with the preceding Rules of Distribution precludes the picayune study that is the basis for intense scholarship Rather, most courses at Colgate are of the survey variety, aimed at a smattering of culture in many times and lands...
...right) at the GHQ directors' group at Camp Polk. Gruenther became a lieutenant colonel during the maneuvers . . . Eisenhower says Gruenther is one of the best soldiers he has ever known-and so do dozens of other people. Gruenther is a thin, pale, frank officer who proves to be studious, well-informed and extremely well-liked . . . The knowing element in the Army is betting on the Eisenhower-Gruenther combination to swim to the top quickly...
...Hanlon's subjects range from a dipping, dabbing Ouzel to a mournful Solemn Heron and a whole series of popeyed, studious-looking little owls. His materials are chunks of volcanic rock found in California's hills. He chisels a bosomy pouter pigeon from pitted grey pumice, uses polished quartzite for the silken feathers of a nesting woodcock, letting the shape of the stone suggest his forms. He chisels a fierce eagle, coldly eying the world, with a few simple curves; in his owls, a rough triangle of stone becomes a beak, a sharp shelf of rock becomes...