Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME actually does give the events of the day in thorough and concentrated fashion. It does omit surplus verbiage. But it also gives unnecessary and vulgar sensational stories-and it gives these stories in a manner more objectionable than that used by the gum-chewers' sheetlets so greatly decried by TIME...
TIME claims to give the events of the day in thorough and concentrated fashion, and to omit surplus verbiage and news of no importance...
Good sports, Their Royal Highnesses laughingly took a thorough sousing. A tennis party followed on shore, then tea at which the Duke plucked a ripe orange from a nearby tree and ate it, remarking at the stinging taste experienced on biting into ripe orange peel Finally the royal party were sprayed again as they put-putted two miles out to the Renown which promptly up-anchored for the Panama Canal and Australia (TIME...
...officers and departments of the University, and frequently known as Harvard's Who's Who has formerly appeared before the Christmas vacation, but was not published this year. H. W. Bragdon '28, A. H. O'Neil '28, and J. L. Pool '28 have been chosen to make a thorough examination of the Register, in order to suggest improvements and innovations. They will also ascertain the number of undergraduates and graduates who have been purchasing the volume...
...Yorker, in 1851 of German parents, bought the New Yorker Staats-Zeitung in 1889. He had already established two Catholic newspapers in Manhattan and under his direction the Staats-Zeitung became the country's leading German daily. An independent Democrat, he was national democratic treasurer in 1908. A thorough German, he defended the Kaiser during the War, as far as his U. S. patriotism would permit, daily publishing an editorial in English that his attitude might be clearly understood. He died poor owing to a large and unfortunate investment. Friends assumed his debts to keep his press properties intact...