Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Resignation? A new sponge must always be soaked before using or its fibres may scratch the hand that uses it and the surface it is intended to clean. The question last week in Washington was: did Secretary Mellon put such a thorough damper on Assistant Secretary Lowman that the latter might soon resign...
...naught Western Union's contemplated permalloy cable. Mackay Companies, through Commercial Pacific Cable Co., owns the only present transpacific cable. This cable operates between the U. S., Hawaii, the Philippines and China. Mackay Companies, further, covers the U. S. with Postal Telegraph, although to a less thorough extent than does Western Union. † It has arrangements for transmission of telegrams with Canadian Pacific Telegraphs which cover Canada; for its transatlantic cable it has traffic arrangement with Radio Corporation of America (which on the Pacific Coast co- operates with Western Union). Also, it has radio and cable con- nections with...
...divorce suits will be heard by a special section of the Fourth Civil Tribunal, presided over by Rieul Paisant, expert on international and U. S. state laws, who speaks English comme un Anglais. Thorough examination of all applications is to result under the new regime and particular attention is to be paid to the method of establishing residence and the possibility of collusion between the litigants...
...Some unrecorded tragedy wiped out the Nabataeans and made their city shunned by Arabs. The location was lost to European science until a German explorer found it again in 1812. . . . British Museum savants, aided now by their country's protectorate in Palestine, were first to set out for a thorough examination of the inaccessible ruin...
...Patrick's abduction was by a whole trainload of cinema folk hurrying to a coast convention. Mr. Flinn's recovery was rapid and happy. And to reward virtue in true cinema style, Mr. DeMille and friends took Dr. Patrick for a thorough inspection of filmland, including even a Mack Sennett bathing beauty scene. And they gave him, together with his ticket back to Marceline, Mo., a fee whose proportions will not be approached until Marceline, Mo., breaks out with simultaneous epidemics of mumps, colic, babies and pink...