Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Byrd Expedition during its 18 months on the continent will make thorough explorations within the range of its two planes and of its several dog teams...
...Vagabond was well supplied with good will in fact, so thorough going was his genial spirit that it included even Uncle Albert who last year donated a smoking stand in the shape of a purple camel with an ash tray on each hump and a stack of matches in each car. The result of his visit to the pedlars and pushcarts of the metropolis across the Charles was tremendously successful. For the Vagabond's wood-closet is now piled high with assorted containers of everything from velocipedes and sewing machines to a porcelain statuette of Buddha for Aunt Agatha...
...Trial. The Warner Brothers' Vitaphone gets a thorough trial in this oldtime courtroom melodrama by Elmer Rice. The verdict: well cast, well talked, well acted, but with a few awkward pauses. The action consists entirely of courtroom testimony with flashbacks to show the events leading up to the murder. It is gradually revealed that Husband No. 1 was justified in killing Husband No. 2, because Husband No. 2 had treated the wife of Husband No. 1 in a dastardly manner. Best shot: a sleepy judge. Best acting: 44-year-old Pauline Frederick and 8-year-old Vondell Darr...
...scouting a play of this sort, because it plans and specifications to explain it thorough The only practical way to scout it would be backs may have the ball and the best way to four before they had a chance...
...gift marked the one hundred and third anniversary of the conferring on Franklin of a Harvard master of arts degree. During the time the painting has been owned by the University it has hung in Memorial Hall, though it was removed some time ago to be given a thorough cleansing in the Fogg Museum. It has just been placed in Lehman Hall...