Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gaunt, shy Swede, the son of a frontier family, George Norlin put himself through college and became a great Greek scholar. He also became one of the strong men of U. S. education. In 40 years at Colorado, 20 as its president, he made it the best university between the Middle West and the Pacific Coast. In the process he faced down the Ku Klux Klan and many another foe of academic freedom. Few years ago he frightened his friends by defying Adolf Hitler in his own backyard. As a visiting lecturer in Berlin, he persisted in championing democracy despite...
...strategy of enveloping attack, what Pilsudski called the strategy of "open spaces." During last year's Polish Army maneuvers, the German military attache asked what use Poland, with its terrible roads, had for tanks. The Marshal smiled and said: "Ah, but you have good roads." The Marshal is a scholar-technician rather than a leader-drillmaster. Like France's Maurice Gamelin, he is an admirer and close student of Napoleon. In his study are two busts and four portraits of the Little Corporal. Softspoken, shy, gentle, he cannot be profane or brutal when he tries. The Army...
...they are men who are devoting their lives to acquiring knowledge as well as to imparting it. Whether the instruction be by tutorial conference or by lectures, such teachers have throughout their careers a quality which is not to be found in the teacher who is not also a scholar...
Norman Mather Littell for Carl McFarland in the Lands Division. A Rhodes Scholar at Oxford (1921-24) from Indiana, Mr. Littell settled in Seattle, where he worked briefly for NRA but made his record in private practice in the Northwest. Interior Department lawyers used to have orders not to consult the Department of Justice. Now they do and the Lands Division is where they do much of their consulting...
...scholar who set out to count the number of times the word the occurred in Shakespeare would be chagrined to learn when he finished the job that someone else had had the same idea, counted faster. To spare scholars such disappointments, James M. Osborn, a young Yale research associate, this week undertook to tell them what their fellow scholars were doing. With an assistant (Robert G. Sawyer), he compiled a comprehensive list of studies being made by researchers in the humanities throughout the world. His list, Work in Progress (not to be confused with the famed working title of James...