Word: studiously
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...interest in symphonic music and the ballet. He had never been arrested for anything, had never been openly mixed up in left-wing movements. At 39, he was still a bachelor, still lived with his family. Neighbors had considered him a "good boy" when he was a child-quiet, studious, polite. They still did. He seemed completely wrapped up in his work in medical research at the Philadelphia General Hospital...
Purtell admires the Radcliffe girl. "They're all studious," he says. "Sometimes their boyfriends get out of hand, but they eventually learn that they can't win," he declares, with unshakable faith...
...Studious men will find the library filled with texts, reference books, and fiction, French, German, economics, history, and pre-med scholars gather in the dining hall and common rooms periodically, to discuss their fields. In addition to a large and varied collection of classical records, the House boasts, more than $800 worth of jazz discs...
...mind behind them forceful. Fellow members of the Joint Chiefs had learned to listen carefully to the Navy's Forrest Percival Sherman. The U.S., as the Joint Chiefs already knew, had found a fighting man of rare qualities: the man of action who is also reflective, studious, habitually unruffled...
...name correspondent. He had also written a novel, Signed with Their Honor (TIME, Oct. 5, 1942), which was clumsy fiction and embarrassingly indebted to Hemingway, but good reporting about war in the air. His second novel, The Sea Eagle, made it plain that not even the most studious aping of Hemingway was enough to make a novelist out of a newspaperman. With The Diplomat, it should by now be obvious even to his publishers that Author Aldridge ought to get back to straight reporting...