Word: bookworm
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...bookworm (he often has to look up the spelling of medical trade terms) and not much of a laboratory researcher. Dr. Johansen never gave up hope that somebody, somewhere, would find a drug to cure leprosy. He worked conscientiously with the sulfas. Then, at the end of World War II, came the sulfones, such as Diasone, Promacetin and sulphetrorie...
...narrator, who becomes Zorba's boss and foil, is a 35-year-old scholar, tired, bookworm-eaten, a 20th century Hamlet. Sensing that he ought to get away from his study for a while, he eases off on his definitive life of Buddha and tries to run a lignite mine. Zorba, the would-be cook, becomes his chief engineer. And through Zorba, the scholar learns to see the world fresh each...
...stage, Russell found that his new guise could be a show-stopper too. In a bemused, horn-rimmed way, Russell has become something of a matinee idol, has done for the morale of the spectacle-wearing bookworm what Ezio Pinza did for the middle-aged man. His television appearances have brought him fan mail from all over the country. Grateful mothers often write to thank him for helping reconcile their teen-age sons to glasses...
Prudence and bookworm Philosophy...
...fourth place, I deeply resent the headline: "Bookworm? No--Tapeworm! I am a sweet-tempered man, but I cannot bear in silence the totally unfounded charge of being a tapeworm. It is monstrous. T. B. Roos...