Word: studiousness
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...Studious men will find the library filled with texts, reference books, and fiction, French, German, economics, history, and pre-med scholars gather in the dining hall and common rooms periodically, to discuss their fields. In addition to a large and varied collection of classical records, the House boasts, more than $800 worth of jazz discs...
...mind behind them forceful. Fellow members of the Joint Chiefs had learned to listen carefully to the Navy's Forrest Percival Sherman. The U.S., as the Joint Chiefs already knew, had found a fighting man of rare qualities: the man of action who is also reflective, studious, habitually unruffled...
...name correspondent. He had also written a novel, Signed with Their Honor (TIME, Oct. 5, 1942), which was clumsy fiction and embarrassingly indebted to Hemingway, but good reporting about war in the air. His second novel, The Sea Eagle, made it plain that not even the most studious aping of Hemingway was enough to make a novelist out of a newspaperman. With The Diplomat, it should by now be obvious even to his publishers that Author Aldridge ought to get back to straight reporting...
Creamed Chicken. In many ways Kenneth Oberholtzer is a schoolman's schoolman. The son of a Western school superintendent, he was a mild-mannered boy, so shy and studious that his hearty father eventually gave him the same nickname that early Denver gave Sligoman Gold-rick, "the Professor." School was his life. In the fifth grade, he fell for his first girl, a curly-headed classmate named Florence; 14 years later he married her. At the University of Illinois he decided to make education his career, later went on for a Ph.D. at Columbia University's Teachers College...
Sometimes the coalition met itself coming & going as it argued that there was no use doing "something" for Korea in light of the Administration's "do nothing" policy on China. In vain, Minnesota's studious ex-missionary Dr. Walter Judd, an Old China Hand and able Republican critic of State's Asian policies, tried to get things right side up. Cried he: "If, on top of the blow the Administration has just dealt to the last hope of the Chinese, we here today walk out on the Koreans, what do you think it will...