Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President expressed gratification that the Constitution had been passed and promulgated, as it gave a firm basis to the Government; he touched upon the need of a reduction in military expenditure, upon thorough financial retrenchment, upon the need of developing and maintaining education. Referring to the lack of cooperation in China and to foreign nations he said...
Members of the "Unofficial Commission of Hearst Newspapers" completed a "long and thorough" tour of Russia with a week-end conference with M. Kalinin, Chairman of the Presidium of the Union (of Socialist Soviet Republics) Central Executive Committee...
...fame rests on a literary basis. Educated at Cheltenham College and Lincoln College, Oxford, he became a professed Liberal in politics, a die-hard Conservative in his writings. His volumes on Voltaire and Rousseau are typical examples of this literary conservatism. In these books he is nothing if not thorough, he scrupulously avoids equivocation but he deals only in the straight and narrow paths of inquiry. Probably his chef d'oeuvre is the remarkable biography of Gladstone, Life of Gladstone...
...with pride-they could afford to keep two cars for the sake of their position but they could not afford the most necessary repairs on their farms. As a matter of economic fact they cumbered the ground, and the slow pressure of economic facts at last destroyed them. A thorough, complete dissection of an acute problem in present-day England-well worth reading...
...alumni association was formed last June, but active work toward its thorough organization was not begun until this fall. The activities of this graduate organization will be largely social. Recent estimates place the graduate membership of the Sodality...