Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From now until Christmas vacation, daily scrimmaging will be the rule. There are no scheduled games until after the holidays, but Coach Chase feels that a thorough working out of all his material is necessary in order to whip the squad into shape...
...baby plane selling for 5,000 gold marks ($1,190) is being sold in large numbers in Germany-particularly to farmers and traveling salesmen. Built entirely of steel by a steel firm in Breslau, it is actually cheaper than any automobile being built in Germany and is on a thorough production basis...
...atmosphere and attitude of both book and author can be summed up in one of Caleb's own speeches; and if in literature, as in shipbuilding, there were more thorough, sincere productions of this sort, more shipyard and less "gingerbread an paint", there would likewise be less hue and cry about the decadence of American letters. "Well, 'Glory', ole girl . . . they went an' busted up the shipyard; they went an' filled the harbor with bo'ts made o gingerbread an paint, that come a-scurryin' back to their moorin's a fore it blows hard enough to muss a woman...
...Newell Blair of Joplin, Mo., Vice Chairman of the Democratic National Committee. The subject of her opinion was President Coolidge, the object a group of Democratic women in Hartford, Conn. Said Mrs. Blair: "I believe that he has not won favor with the women, largely because women voters are thorough modernists and they cannot see that an 18th Century man, such as our admittedly Puritan President is, is fitted particularly for the problems of this rushing 20th Century. A great amount of propaganda has been sent out about his ' cautiousness,' ' thriftiness ' and ' silence,' and the women, I believe...
Rarely has such thorough-going scientific knowledge been coupled with such facilty of practical application. The inexpertness of the men of so-called "pure science" in making the fruits of their labor useful to civilization has resulted in parallel, but until very recently, widely separated growths of Industry and Science; and even now the engineer, who is supposed to bridge the gap, reaches from the side Industry only part way to the edges of Science. It is true that "practical" men have traditionally, at least, scorned the aid of the theorists, for being practical, they had to be shown...