Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University poll of 1924 President Coolidge got a sweeping majority. He led Davis more than two to one in what was the most thorough poll on Presidential nominees ever taken in the University. 4583 votes were cast, Coolidge polled 2573 votes, Davis received 1200, and La Follette...
...very much surprised, and not at all pleased to discover that my signature had been forged to one of the lists and I thought you might be interested enough to start a thorough investigation of such terrible goings on. There is nothing, I should like to see in your little paper more than a tally of the genuine signatures and those creations of an imaginative Republican with somewhat criminal tendencies...
That is what may seem a terrible play, sight unseen, but each role has been given to a thorough player. The sets by Yellenti include one of a scene in No Man's Land which must give an authentic impression of that hell to one who has never been there. Upon the square shoulders of George Jessel has been placed the task of carrying off the play's heavier moments-a task to which he is more than equal...
...Thorough tests of a new British anti-tank gun, said to be capable of destroying any tank at 800 yards, led to a furious controversy among experts, last week, during which the statement was bandied that "the tank is now as obsolete as the old cast iron battleship...
...group of strained young faces, than before a half a thousand listless, far-away faces in a giant lecture hall. He would rather be an organ-grinder's monkey than a bandleader's baton. He has staked his reputation on a small college with a limited course of instruction, thorough within itself; and if that be poison, there is still Columbia, Cornell, California, Michigan, Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Brown...