Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scholar from Cambridge University, now in the junior class at Yale College, has won two important prizes in the annual awards. He received the Noyes-Cutter Prize of $50 for "rendering the Greek of the New Testament into modern English," and the Winthrop Prize of $200 for "the most thorough acquaintance [among Yale College juniors] with the Greek and Latin poets...
...larger American export trade, even if it has grown wiser and more patient than were business-men-in-general four years ago. Last week the Council's convention in Boston stressed the necessity for educational facilities in the U. S. for training foreign trade personnel, and for a thorough knowledge of the foreign markets into which our goods are to be sold...
...Wire Co., became superintendent of the factory. From then on he shot ahead with the rapidity and brilliance of a meteor. In 1911 he became President of the U. S. Steel Corporation- probably the greatest executive position in the indusrial world. His success is no doubt due to his thorough training as a workman. At the age of 61 he is still an ardent yachtsman and lover of outdoor life...
...apparently expect to open up the continent from north to south by the Cape-to-Cairo Railroad and its feeder lines, while the French have established lines of communication by tractor across the Sahara from Morocco to Timbuctoo in the heart of the continent. No one knows what a thorough exploitation of the continent may mean to the world's trade. Since the War, the development of African Copper properties, such as Tanganyika Copper, has already made its influence felt in the world's markets. In time, it is probable that coal and oil resources will be discovered...