Word: studiousness
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...breast of studious, thin-lipped Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz the Fuhrer pinned a ribbon last week "in recognition of his singular merits in the conduct of the U-boat war." The singular Doenitz had shifted his attack north and west. U-boats, out of range of land-based planes, were hunting again in the mid-Atlantic, sleeplessly athwart the lines to Britain, North Africa and Russia...
After almost five months of continuous action on one of the most perilous beachheads they ever defended, the Marines deserved a rest. Not in recent history had U.S. fighting men seen so much continuous front-line action. Under studious, composed Major General Alexander Archer Vandegrift, they had met 15,000 Japanese and learned by bitter experience how to meet the Japs' strange, unorthodox tactics of the jungle...
...sponsor wrote Harvard's President Eliot that he hoped to enable women to carry education "further than it is possible for them to do in this country, except possibly at Smith College." (Sic). Harvard professors agreed to help, and a small home at 6 Appian Way soon housed 27 studious young ladies...
...Known hitherto as a confirmed bachelor, studious Sir William last week surprised his friends by announcing his engagement to his Scottish sister-in-law, Mrs. Janet Mair, mother of four children and a grandmother to boot. Said she: "I am radiant." Said he:"My future wife is about my own age (63). She's a very charming person...
Almost lost in the rush of symbolic "firsts" was studious, bespectacled, 56-year-old Hugh Mulzac. In 1907 he was an ordinary seaman in full-rigged British ships. He climbed to able seaman, boatswain, quartermaster, became a U.S. citizen and got his second mate's papers in 1918. Within two years he had the only U.S. master's certificate ever issued a Negro, a double-riveted whole-hog "any ocean, any tonnage" ticket. Still going up, he got a command: the British registry Yarmouth in the West Indies-Central America trade. Not much of a ship, perhaps...