Word: studiousness
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...suave as O'Keeffe but not so austere were the portraits by Russian Pavel Tchelitchew in the swank, palette-shaped Julien Levy Gallery. A studious but fashionable virtuoso, Painter Tchelitchew showed Manhattanites a notable grab bag of tricks, from Byzantine golden backgrounds to the academic delicacies of silverpoint...
Softspoken, studious Francisco Franco Bahamonde is no university man. He was born in Galicia 45 years ago, son of the commandant of the Ferrol naval base. In the tradition of a thoroughly militaristic family, elder Brother Nicolas went into the navy, second son Francisco went into the Infantry Academy at Toledo's Alcazar at the age of 14. In due time youngest brother Ramon Franco went into the aviation service. Shockheaded, wild-eyed Brother Ramon Franco was the first member of the family to make world headlines. In 1926, widely hailed as the "Spanish Lindbergh," he flew non-stop...
...Last year he was barely beaten by Archie Williams in the 400-metre race at the Olympics, where he anchored Great Britain's victorious 1,600-metre relay team. Asked before the Princeton-Cornell meet whether he planned to run against the clock or the pack, studious Captain Brown parried: "I'll do the best I know...
...heard by the U. S. at large. But sometimes Editor Armstrong has more to say than he can pack into the pages of his quarterly and wants to say it to more than his usual readers. On such occasions his thoughts overflow into a book, the fruit of studious reading, conservatively liberal thinking, alert observations gleaned on his annual trips to Europe. Though respectfully reviewed, his books have never been bestsellers, but last winter an extra-editorial utterance of Editor Armstrong's caught the public ear. So timely, so comprehensive, so stimulating did U. S. readers find...
...entirely dependent upon the undergraduates for obtaining the wares they deal in, they can still draw upon non-scholarship men. The University rightly reasons that the holders of scholarships are more obligated to it than others, and are therefore more subject to its legislation. If, however, the more studious men among the contributors are cut off, the emporiums must inevitably produce less abundantly. But it is doubtful that they will enter a mortal decline just because of this...