Word: studiousness
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...Georgian nicknames. "Soso" and "Koba." His daring robberies (which he called ''expropriations'') seemed as natural to her as his still more daring murders ("executions")?for were they all not done to get money for the Communist cause and at the orders of Nikolai Lenin, then a studious resident of London, England and a frequent visitor to the British Museum...
...vote equal to the number of its Representatives and Senators in Congress. The elective majority is 266 such votes. Nationwide presidential polls by The Literary Digest and the 26 Hearstpapers are reliable indices of what is in the political wind. The straw votes are supplemented and largely confirmed by studious political correspondents touring the country, by private business scouts, by astute politicians taking "off the record." TIME's map, no forecast, represents a summary of this mass of opinion. States have been classified as follows: 1) Republican or Democratic where straw polls give the leading candidate two-thirds majority...
...Mayor Bulganin's civic government asphalted 350.000 yards of Moscow streets. Such statistics are prime news in Russia. Strictly speaking the "Mayor" is President of the Moscow Soviet and its Presidium is the civic government. Not a burly, two-fisted "Old Bolshevik," Electrical Engineer Bulganin is small, studious, neatly dressed, a "Modern Bolshevik" much milder in type than Dictator Josef Stalin who used to blow up safes and Tsarist officials "in the name of the Revolution...
...Giantism". Sharpest and most studious of criticisms were voiced in Manhattan where a Round Table Conference on Utility Regulation was being held by almost 100 commission members and regulation students. Finance Professor James Cummings Bonbright of Columbia University, Secretary of the Power Authority of the State of New York, spoke on "The Breakdown of the Public Utility Holding Company." Utilitymen read his speech with keen interest for they knew Professor Bonbright to be a cousin of the late William Prescott Bonbright and of Irving W. Bonbright, co-founders of Bonbright & Co., utility bankers...
...House member. The tutors also make many acquaintances with the students, and take most of their meals with them. The associates, however, have done little or nothing for the House except attend occasional high table dinners. The students probably represent a good "cross-section", although they tend to be studious, as witnessed by the fact that of the forty men elected to Phi Beta Kappa last autumn, Lowell claims eleven...