Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pursued at the Observatory for the sake of recording changes in the heavens. Usually discoveries are made on new plates. This time, when the new plate was superimposed on the old it was found that a star recorded on the old plate did not appear on the new. A thorough subsequent search of other plates brought out the fact that it was a nova which had flourished in 1917 and had not been found at that time at any astronomical observatory...
...course on the Russian situation is of particular significance. No other modern country is shrouded in such a veil of mystery, and in no other field is a thorough, non-partisan investigation so much to be desired. There has been found at present no middle ground on the question. Naturally a course on Russia at Harvard College will not dispel all the extremists, but it has two important contributions to make. It will show that the University has not been led away from academic investigation by the current exaggerations regarding "reds," and will thus strengthen its reputation for scientific...
There seems to be no doubt of the need for and value of courses of this nature. A reading knowledge of modern languages is necessary for a thorough understanding of literature, history, and science. But there is a growing class of men who want more than a reading knowledge. They are the men who will fill diplomatic posts, positions as representatives of great banking or commercial houses--an ever increasing group of participants in world trade and international transactions. They want to be able to deal with Frenchmen, Germans, and South Americans without the hinderance of interpreters...
...question of the League of Nations attached to the Peace with Germany is too large a one, as you will readily understand, for thorough and detailed discussion in a brief letter, but I think I can state to you in broad terms the attitude which the Senate has taken in regard to the treaty...