Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...because of family finances, he got a job as office boy with the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Strange office boy, he wanted to investigate art and for this purpose pinched his living; learned shorthand; did odd jobs; and finally went to Paris on his savings. Back from Paris with a thorough artistic background, he started writing; won a contest on the old Baltimore News at an age when most bright young men are beginning to succeed, took the resulting job offered him and in five years was managing editor, at an age when many young men are beginning to admit failure...
During several years constant, thorough and appreciative reading of your splendid newsmagazine, I have until now, resisted the oft-occuring temptation to write you in commendation of your policy in the set-up of your periodical, but since reading Mr. John Palmer Gavit's letter in TIME. Oct. 3, I want to say "Amen" to all that he said, and to add that his letter is by far the best one on the subject that I have seen, and I am confident of having read all of them to date...
...style is rapid and sketchy, though poignant. Streeter gains his end in describing the natives, or a scene, or a hunt without pressing sentence after sentence upon us. Photographs in great number help us to gain a more thorough knowledge of what the author has seen. Perhaps more praise ought to be given the author for supplying us with such an amount of visual record; those who care to read the book will enjoy them; those who don't will suffer...
...dispelled in favor of a modern one. For during the summer, these two old dormitories have been the victims of the carpenter's hammer and the plasterer's tools, in the University's campaign to amelio-rate the living conditions of the students. The process of renovation has been thorough. New hardwood floors, a feature of the remodeling program, have replaced the worn boards that used to creak with the footsteps of the great. Steel staircases have been installed in place of their noisy wooden predecessors, and this step is expected to do much towards eliminating the old "firetrap" hazard...
...House should entitle him to the keys of the city and a bed in the State House. The established order of things is, however, much different. The day is past when one could romp gaily through every Middlesex village and town and then retire to a noble posterity; a thorough knowledge of the knowledge of the highways and byways of Boston is now a profession in itself...