Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Philadelphia track should be unbeatable in Saturday's battle. In Cooke, of Syracuse, and Ross, of Yale, he has, however, a trio of rivals who will push him to his best if he is to win. McKinnon is the best Western prospect in the half mile and with the thorough acclimatization to the conditions of Franklin Field which his week's practice there should give him is a possible leader of the 880 field on Saturday...
General Andrews decided that the books in question should be released since identical volumes had been for several years imported through the Port of New York without question. He added that the Treasury Department was giving the matter of allegedly obscene importations thorough study, and would, as promptly as possible, promulgate a set of regulations covering the subject. Further importations of the questioned editions of the Arabian Nights and the Decameron were ordered suspended until the announcement of the Treasury Department's findings...
...wings of their plane forced them to death in the waters of the Atlantic off the coast of Newfoundland. Several reputable citizens of Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, swore that they saw (others heard) a plane in the air at about the hour that the White Bird was due. But a thorough combing of land and sea in this district had not yet revealed even so much as a strut of the White Bird...
...quality rather than the quantity of education. In this direction the School has already gone very far. In voting to reduce student numbers next fall and in introducing Honors Courses this year, the Faculty announced its determination to restrict its efforts to giving the best students obtainable the most thorough training possible. This year we have had 55 men in Honors Courses, working individually or in small groups under the supervision of the instructor, on important and practical legal problems. The results of this work have been so gratifying that we shall extend this type of study into other fields...
...attain. No student will be recommended for the degree of Master of Education who has had only such instruction and training as may develop his craftsmanship in teaching or school management without giving him a grasp of education as a whole. The new plan will provide a more thorough and more unfilled professional preparation. With only one year at its disposal, the School has been under pressure to give practical training at the expense of courses of a more fundamental character. Hereafter, our program will be, at least in its design, a program of training for educators. This does...