Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three-man committee, explained that the postponement would aid the committee in arriving at a unanimous decision. He said the members of the committee are divided at present on their opinions as to the validity of the charges and additional time was needed to conduct a more thorough investigation...
...receiving a telephone call from an unidentified person that a bomb had been planted in Soldiers Field Stadium, the Boston Fire and Police Departments rushed three fire engines and numerous police cars to the scene. However, a thorough search of the stadium failed to reveal any explosives...
Leaving the picture, I came momentarily to my senses. "A thorough-going loser," I sneered in a burst of slashing iconoclasm...
Donald T. Field '31, the lawyer, has been examining the papers this week. Field emphasized that he has no intention of bringing suit unless he finds "incontrovertible" evidence that the Klemm girls were committed illegally, and that a thorough investigation of the case is planned...
...last Friday Brown and White, the Lehigh student newspaper, came up with an interesting answer to this letterwriter. After conducting a thorough survey, the paper found that 75 per cent of Bethlehem residents whose homes are contiguous to Lehigh fraternities have no serious complaints against them, and that many even prefer to have "the Greeks" as neighbors. Moreover, the University is giving heavy financial support to an on-campus building program which will eventually bring all the houses up to South Mountain...