Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What was one of Coach Horween's most constant and perplexing problems last fall seems to be reasonably well solved this year. To be without quarter-backs who have had experience and possess a thorough knowledge of the game is an almost insuperable disadvantage to any team, however good it may be in other departments; and by the same token to have a staff of capable quarterbacks is an asset which cannot be overestimated...
...believe in giving the roses while people are alive. I congratulate you on the make-up and substance of TIME. I have been a constant reader since I first saw it, a fews weeks ago. It is concise, original, thorough, dependable. Just the magazine for the busy discriminating man or woman. Good luck...
...first legend has been repeatedly scotched; the second, never. The third legend received, last week, a thorough scotching. The Pullman Co. peremptorily denied that Mrs. Lowden ever named a Pullman car. She inspired neither Belvedere nor Beauregard. And at the same time, the company revealed tricks and twists of naming its 9,000 cars. Among piquant twists...
...Connell, who carried the green and flabby reporter's bible across the stage in The Racket does the best drinking while John Cromwell hands in a properly languid sketch of the cheerless, sardonic Wick Snell, who knows his business well enough to have an even more thorough detestation of the activities it reports. There was observed also in the play a crumpled fellow, who, on the occasions when he turned his front to the audience, generally had his mouth too full to talk. This mousy character was called Bellflower; actually he was Russel Grouse, columnist of the New York...
Hysteria, trickiest of psychopathic states, is an escape from reality, from conflict. Mrs. Morf it protected from the horror of nearby murder. For her it was too thorough. Others it protects from scolding, from efforts. Sometimes hysteria comes on involuntarily; often the man, woman or child (having observed its value) willfully scurries into it; more often the person tries to fight off an attack and, horrified, watches himself sink into contrariness...