Word: studiousness
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Bigart was warned to employ the strictest konspiratsia, "that favorite Balkan term for secrecy." Next day the stranger brought a guide, a stocky, studious youth named John. He told Bigart to buy a ticket to Rome and get an Italian visa, to make things look legitimate, then...
Next morning, after a sleepless, studious night, Ham Andrews returned to the fray. He accused Brown of: (i) reading questions from a 1942 test; 2) not giving him the multiple choices which the test provided; 3) reading only questions at the end of the test, which, said Princetonian Andrews, only Harvard men are supposed to answer. And furthermore, he added: "I got the first one right...
...outstanding misfires of the season. Those who made it shoveled some $5,000,000 into the mixer; a couple of topflight romantic leads (Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer); a couple of topflight character actors (Charles Laughton and Louis Calhern); the strenuous talents of Director Lewis Milestone; a massive, studious production; and a somewhat bowdlerized version of Erich Remarque's best-selling romance about political derelicts in the limbo of 1939 Paris...
...form of reward for their past studious records, men on Dean's list are exempt from the regulation...
McKean was a poor lecturer but an unusual man. "O I declare, I sometimes think he will look me right through," wrote one girl on hearing him speak. Nevertheless, he was studious, and the houses's spacious rooms had their first taste of bookishness in the five years of his residence. Fay House saw another prophesy of things to come in the 1820's, when Sophia Dana used the Oval Room to give the neighborhood girls some schooling in subjects that the Harvard men were studying. The classes continued through several years against fearful dangers, for, as an observer remarked...