Word: studiousness
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...studious, tireless executive, Fred Kappel first went to work for the Bell System in 1924 as a $25-a-week groundman fresh out of the University of Minnesota, where he helped pay his way by drumming in a jazz band. Kappel soon ran the gamut of line-crew jobs from splicer to circuit tester, by 1934 was a full-fledged engineer in the Nebraska-South Dakota area. He did so well there that he was called into Northwestern Bell's headquarters at Omaha, where he was promoted to vice president in 1942. Seven years later he was shifted again...
After the toasts, Brown began picking on Khrushchev's studious young (22) son, seated near by. "You don't always agree with your father on everything, do you?" Brown demanded. Young Khrushchev replied that he did. "I have a daughter about your age in the university," bellowed Brown. "She disagrees with me all the time. That's the difference between your country and ours...
...deserve financial aid. This is especially true when the cause of Group V or VI standing is almost universally found to be either extra-curricular obligations or psychological problems. It seems deplorable that the University should force a student with extra-curricular ambitions and abilities into an unnecessarily studious pose, and even more deplorable that the College should augment the problems of those in psychological difficulty by cutting off financial support...
...document the Statistical Section did recognize as the work of a bona fide traitor was a list of French military secrets that it ran across in September 1894. Historian Chapman ably retells the story of how, with a few slipshod handwriting comparisons, a War Office clique decided that studious, impersonable. wealthy and unpopular Captain Alfred Dreyfus was the logical culprit. Author Chapman argues that Dreyfus' court-martial and imprisonment at Devil's Island were mostly a tragedy of honest errors, not a conspiracy of racial malice...
...looked less a leader for the daring end-run tactics than studious, shy Frank Merrill, a pudgy, peaceful staff officer with bad eyes and a weak heart, who had had little experience commanding troops. But Merrill was a professional of high intelligence and remarkable tenacity...