Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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MICROBE HUNTERS?Paul de Kruif?Harcourt, Brace ($3.50). Dr. Kruif takes a dozen bacteriologists and from a thorough knowledge of their contributions (and with perhaps as thorough knowledge of the buying public) creates of all scientists a composite dervish, solitary, crotchety, whirling now at this experiment, now at that test tube, at this insect, at that spectator...
...thing to glance at a new Advocate, to get an impression of how things are going in that particular eddy in the stream of undergraduate life, and quite another to read the latest issue straight through. This thorough reading, despite the distracting necessity of watching for something which can be made to serve as a text for the CRIMSON's review, supplies the material for very definite opinions about undergraduate writing, so far as conscious literary effort is concerned, at the moment...
...this bureau and traveled miles to get them from supply depots. Dr. Park has characterized pneumonia as "probably about the worst disease we have left to conquer, aside from those which attack adults of comparatively advanced age. Pneumonia now kills more persons every year than tuberculosis. [The last thorough data (1923) gives the U. S. pneumonia death rate as 109 per 100,000 of population.] Human beings are liable to it at practically every age and in practically every climate...
This year the team from Utica is well fortified in reserves and should be able to keep step with the University shifts, something which no other opponent of the Crimson has been able to do this year. Fight, speed, and a thorough knowledge of the game, has been reputed to the Crimson's opponents of tonight and Coach Pettyman expects his men to show favorably in spite of their lack of weight...
...their fellow-students who follow after and should contribute their advice ungrudgingly. All Freshmen will receive grafts copies of the booklet just as they receive the Freshman "Bible", previous to their selection of courses in the matter of Departments more space and greater care will be devoted to a thorough discussion of the work professors, courses and general desirability of each Department...