Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such a cry went up at Budapest last week when Premier Count Stephen Bethlen de Bethlen of Hungary returned from two weeks spent visiting Signor Mussolini at Rome and said: "My Government will undertake in the immediate future a thorough study of the Fascist system, especially its social aspects. . . . We shall then adopt those Fascist reforms which have been tested and found practicable...
...brass-lunged American Mercury, one T. N. Gillespie, laid out all specialized pedagogy for a thorough flogging. He flogged Deans of Education as representing "the very bottom of American academic ability," the Teachers College at Columbia University as an "up and doing cultural behemoth" with a stock of 37 "pedagogical staples...
...ably supported by Lionel Banrymore, represents a high point in cinema art. For once, in "The Show," we have a hero who is not the ideal of the author of the Rover Boy series, a type taken over bodily by the "movies", Gilbert portrays a man who is a thorough sconndrel, and yet somehow likeable despite that fact, and he portrays the part with a very deft touch...
...hands of "the richest man in Massachusetts" lie the lives of two Radicals. On this man who has expressed his "thorough belief" in capital punishment as "the only thing to check wanton crimes of violence" rests such hope of pardon as two men may have who are condemned to be electrocuted for murder. Believing that trial judges should be "no mere moderators or referees," but should "guide and control" inquiries, he is now asked, in effect, to reverse a judicial decision when such a reversal will be universally interpreted as reflecting upon a member of the Massachusetts judiciary. For only...
...high academic standing will be permitted to give up classroom attendance to concentrate on individual study supervised by faculty members. This plan largely parallels the tutorial system in force at Harvard, and has as its aim the establishment of a more thorough and deliberate college course, with no sudden and bewildering transitions from class to class. It is significant that more than half the endowment will go for the improvement of the instruction of the freshman year...