Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York City, January 24--The Carnegle Foundation of Teaching has undertaken this year a thorough going investigation of the place that football at present occupies in the intercollegiate world. This move follows the general interest in the question aroused after the close of the football season last fall...
...accordance with a new system of study, the student is required to obtain a knowledge of the subject independent of regular classroom work. The marked increase in reading is prompted by the ever-present professor. In all probability, the greater circulation of books is accompanied by a less thorough perusal. The undergraduate animal, be he tiger or bulldog, Indian or Puritan, is not apt to spend much time on indefinite assignments...
...more than two or three of the types he presents (although the people he presents are nearly always more than types?they are individuals), but the fact that a Manhattan dweller may not see his town as Mr. Dos Passos does, merely shows that the writer has done a thorough job.. The spectacle is unsavory, but it is strong and there is no other like...
...occupies a peculiar place among the hoary Senators. He is an acknowledged authority on military affairs, a thorough Republican party man, says little, works hard, and is strangely respected by all factions, although still comparatively a young man (only 48). The combination of being a "regular" leader and yet aloof is unique. He is a farmer without a bloc, but that is because he is not a dirt farmer, but something more like a landed aristocrat. He has no political glad hand, no oratorical or political tricks. As Clinton W. Gilbert describes him: "When he speaks, he talks.common sense...
...review. You could glance through the magazine in a dozen minutes, and read it all in three quarters of an hour, and if you read the review I shall insist that you read the Advocate afterwards at least Mr. Dumaux's story. Truly a Christmas number, there is a thorough treatment of the holiday from the gently falling snow flakes sort of thing to the realistic modern. And there are also the usual number of varied essays, verses, reviews and editorials. A good number, but not distinguished...