Word: studiousness
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Monty has come a long way in the five years since he was a studious, all but unknown staff-college instructor, with a lieutenant colonel's crown-and-pip on his shoulders and an insufferable habit of talking down to his classes. But he was then what he is now, a completely dedicated professional, soldier, with a superb sense of the big things of war, and an utter contempt for the small...
...studious officer, he took Army courses and taught them, became a crack instructor at the Infantry School, Fort Benning, served as chief of staff of the 43rd Infantry Division. He volunteered for airborne service in 1942 and speedily won the respect of the paratroopers who had goggled at his stature...
...Some 400,000 studious U.S. fighting men may seek postwar underclass credits for correspondence and self-teaching courses of the U.S. Armed Forces Institute (TIME, Feb. 21). Typical of the Institute's daily ton of letters was that of Brooklyn-born Ensign Frank William Gardner, whose new PC boat is one of the first two U.S. warships with Negro crews. Wrote he: "They are aware . . . that the spotlight . . . shines directly on them. . . . Nearly all ... have shown excited interest [in] the Institute and the opportunities [for] correspondence courses, high-school . . . and college credit...
Robert Ramspeck is a sober, studious Congressman with an affable air which hides a bulldog's tenacity. As chairman of the powerful House Civil Service Committee, he recently took a look at a bill which another smiling, stubborn man, General Henry Harley Arnold, has been trying to shove through Congress. What he saw made Bob Ramspeck clamp his teeth on his pipe stem...
N.A.W.A.'s 52nd exhibition proved once again that, whatever the flaming hopes of its founders, most U.S. women artists today are limited to the competent, the academic, the derivative, the studious...