Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Much of Professor Smith's volume is given over to a thorough discussion of the development of the popular ballad...
Harvard men need no broad undergraduate intercourse "to supplement" or "even correct the influence by teachers of the university," The fallacy of this thought is in the same category as that of the thorough sinners who make the best saints. Youth, itself is balance enough. And if it be feared that the University would, free from an artificial mixing within itself, turn into a closed circuit of thought, let it be remembered that, short as was the distance from the Capitol to the Tarpeian Rock, the distance from Widener to the Harvard Square rotunda is no longer. Harvard shows...
...thorough vindication of the Anti-Saloon League, which was bitterly attacked by Gov. Smith throughout the campaign...
Following his novel of the same name Playwright Pascal proved why a wife should not divorce a husband who has been unfaithful. He placed his characters in the suburbs, brought the husband's woman out to see them, had a thorough, earnest airing of the family dirty linen. Mr. Pascal does not try "to be funny about divorce, nor is he tragic. He is honest rather than brilliantly original...
...took the prestige and initiative of the New York Academy of Medicine to hold, lasting the past fortnight, the country's first thorough conference on the medical problems of old age. Several hundred doctors, from all parts of the U. S., were attending...