Word: studiousness
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Togliatti is no sawdust Caesar. His manner is easy. His face has a studious look behind horn-rimmed glasses, with only a faint ironic hint of the trouble he has seen or is causing. Like France's Maurice Thorez, he is one of the few Communists with a smile-a smile that is somewhat sarcastic around the edges...
Miss Betty Groth of the Freshman Housing Office was even more enthusiastic. Taking a long range view of things, she offered the opinion that "they're much improved since the war; they used to be far more studious. Now they're always gentlemen, and what's more they always throw the best parties...
Music for the Stars. U.C.L.A., which romped past little Montana last week, has only to beat neighboring U.S.C. for a ticket to the Rose Bowl. Its most touted player, serious, studious Burr Baldwin, perhaps the best end in the country, is so good that he has an ex-All-American (Phil Tinsley, formerly of Georgia Tech) as an understudy. Coach Bert LaBrucherie, who coached crack teams at Los Angeles High School for 16 years before he got his big chance with the Bruins last year, feels that ex-G.I.s will not swallow the old get-out-there-&-fight...
...after five years of secretive, studious preparation, Raffles purchased from Johore's Sultan the rights of "protection" over Singapore island. When the news reached London, months later, the East India Company directors were outraged; they had already lost more money than they could afford in such wildcat schemes of trade expansion. But while they debated what to do, the new city of Singapore sprang almost overnight into what Raffles described as "the emporium and pride of the East." Within a year "it was a common sight to count 20 vessels at one time in the harbor"; nine years later...
...girls to return to Shepard Street between classes and to allow more space for the mobs in Widener. Traditional Radcliffe deprecators will, of course, welcome the change, and an occasional queen walking down the aisle from the book desk will no longer waste a hundred man-hours of studious effort at every trip for a book...