Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...office has been open to all who voluntarily sought his aid and to those whose conduct or failure in studies caused their deans to suspect such conduct or failure to be due to physical or mental ill health. Dr. Worcester feels that in most cases a thorough study of the students' physical and mental condition is necessary...
...without keeping books people seem to take for granted that society can continue its century-long existence without them. Considering the woeful inadequacy of American criminal records, the fact that we have followed up 90 percent of the men in question is extremely significant of the possibilities of a thorough system...
...bill, said that Senators Pepper and Glass had promised him the opportunity the night before. Senator Glass immediately denied any such promise. Vice President Dawes rapped his gavel, ruled the discussion out of order, proceeded with a roll call. In the rear of the Senate chamber Carter Glass, 69, thorough Virginia gentleman, ripe scholar, co-author of the Federal Reserve banking law, and Burton K. Wheeler, thorough Montana gentleman, political radical, 1924 candidate for Vice President on the LaFollette ticket, strode toward each other with infernal fire in their respective eyes...
...glory of Cambridge is an inevitable feature of the day's news. The current number of the Saturday Evening Post, however, in an advertisement of clothing made by Hart, Schaffner and Marx, delivers a direct blow to the fair name of Harvard in a criticism which demands immediate and thorough reform...
...Student Friendship fund. The collection of the Budget this year has contributed notably to the ultimate success of the new plan, but in its expenditure there is an equally legitimate test of its merit, and contribution from the Budget to the Student Friendship fund should not be made without thorough investigation of its purposes and of its actual accomplishments...