Word: studiousness
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...Harriman's Union Pacific Railroad profits and other phenomenally successful Wall Street ventures. Averell was a senior at Yale when he was elected to U.P.'s board of directors, and he graduated ('13) into a vice-presidency of the railroad. He was studious in his business dealings, invested carefully in shipping, commercial aviation and investment banking (Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.). In 1928-irritated by Republican high-tariff policy-he turned Democrat and began the first of a series of investments in the Democratic Party...
...corner office of a Gothic building at the University of Chicago, a studious woman librarian sat working over a special report one day last week. The report was all about children-what books they should read, and what books they should not. As hundreds of U.S. parents would soon learn, the May decrees of the awesome Center for Children's Books were just about ready...
...college student is more mature, responsible, and studious than his predecessors, says Stein. He cites the decline of hazing and prank playing in favor of such acts as putting up student dormitories, painting and repairing homes of needy families, and performing various community services. As an example, he points to Wilmington College in Ohio, where students put in up to 400 hours each in building a new dormitory...
...Backroom Boy. It was Bevan at his crudest-but this time he got an answer. From an unnoticed back bench on the Tory side of the House came the clear, ringing challenge of a bright-eyed newcomer. He was studious Iain Macleod, 38, a Tory "backroom boy." Macleod startled the House with his opening remarks: "I want to deal closely and with relish with the vulgar, crude and intemperate speech to which the House of Commons has just listened." Then slowly, piece by piece, quoting Labor's own statements, he demolished Bevan's rhetoric. When Bevan...
Julian L. Coolidge, '95, Lowell House's first Housemaster, set the scholarly tradition. In his era, however, there was a selection of cheap single rooms for the more studious man. This year singles run in the $400 to $600 a year region...