Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...THOROUGH INVESTIGATION INCLUDING CONFERENCE WITH MRS. CRONIN SHOWS HER COMPLAINTS LARGELY RESULT MISUNDERSTANDING ST. PHILIP NERI SCHOOL POLICIES AND PRACTICES. EXAMPLES...
...check this theory, Dr. Kohman suggests, is more thorough analysis of tektites. Tektites that came from a stellar system much younger than the solar system should, for example, contain traces of short-lived elements (e.g., plutonium 244 and curium 247) that have long been extinct on earth...
...building to renting and managing. The company specializes in opening up new areas of cities, is often followed by other firms once it builds. "If you get there first," says Tishman, "you find remarkably little competition. I first trust my instincts to pick the sites, then take a thorough economic survey. If the survey bears out my instincts, we go ahead. If not, I stick with the survey and forget my instincts. This is no business for guesswork...
Against the Jungle. New York's police, a force almost as large as two army divisions, had made plans as thorough as an army's offensive. The department was at near peak strength; by special order no more than 12% of personnel would be on vacation at any one time. The remaining 88% turned eyes away from the schools and wintertime haunts, kept watch on the tenement streets and summer hangouts...
...Adams-Goldfine friendship got a thorough going-over. Privately Adams remembered how he and his wife Rachel, trying for a little balance in their relationship with the free-spending Goldfine, once gave Goldfine a gold watch and at other times some of Mrs. Adams' oil paintings. But newsmen were more interested in a rumor (it was true) that Goldfine bought the Adamses a $2,400 Oriental rug from Macy's, and had a tailor make Adams a vicuna coat worth at least $500 retail (wholesale cost to Goldfine: about...