Word: studiousness
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...vacuum compounded of mistrust and indecision in the Senate, "studies" by the State Department's studious Adolf Berle-and a man to head the U.S. delegation to the forthcoming conferences. The man: ex-U.S. Ambassador to Japan, Joseph Clark Grew, a good diplomat who nonetheless knew nothing about aviation, until he got his new assignment two weeks ago. The only other certainty was that no U.S. air "expert" liked Britain's well-ordered I.A.T.A. All sides were quick to point out that Britain, as the No. 1 sea power, had never seen fit to call for such...
...Frank Merrill is shy, studious, bespectacled. His duty tour as assistant military attache in Tokyo gave him an understanding of Japanese customs and language. At Pearl Harbor time he was on the way to Burma on a mission for Douglas MacArthur. Merrill stayed with Stilwell, became that old infantryman's right hand...
...intense mind, practical and lyrical at once, studious in detail, saved from despair by his love of history and quickened by the vastness of the tragedy he was witnessing, led him into a state where he seemed to live suspended between the unreal and changing Present and the majestic and vanished Past...
...completed engine were turned over to the U.S., and American engineers went to work. General Electric, experienced in building turbines and turbosuperchargers, was assigned to produce the engines, Bell Aircraft to build the planes. The first flight of an American model was made on Oct. i, 1942, by lean, studious Robert M. Stanley, Bell test pilot...
...Marshal Peirse's deputy, studious Major General George E. Stratemeyer, was Chief of Staff for General "Hap" Arnold before going to field duty in India last summer. There General Stratemeyer commanded both Brigadier General Howard C. Davidson's Tenth Air Force (India) and Chennault's famed Fourteenth (China...