Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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RECREATION F. & J. at Play Come crisis, Congress, conference or Communism, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles tries to slip away from his job every couple of months to rest and think. And when he gets away, in thorough Thoreau-going fashion he goes very nearly to population's brink. He and his wife Janet pack a single bag, fly to Watertown, N.Y., board a twin-engined amphibious plane near Lake Ontario, and fly out to their own private Duck Island (3 sq. mi.) and their primitive three-room log cabin-bare of telephone, electricity, running water and plumbing...
...further consequence of this thorough community co-operation is frequently the assumption of a powerful role by the Parent-Teacher Associations associated with the school system. Principals have been known to cower in fear of the ladies who exert influence through cake sales and bridge parties, and in schools with wealthy PTA's, a great many school functions, frequently including academic ones, become complacently dependent upon these women...
...asking General de Gaulle to confer with the Chief of State and to examine with him what, within the bounds of republican legality, is immediately required for a government of national safety, and what can be done within a reasonable period of time thereafter to achieve a thorough reform of our institutions...
...Three Twenty Two suffers from too much editorializing and feature writing and too little respect for the basic tasks of a yearbook--thorough coverage of the events and trends of the previous year in words and pictures. The edition, nevertheless, represents a considerable amount of work, no mean amount of ambition, an improvement over the previous year, the passage of time, and the arrival of another yearbook...
Jabez C. Street, chairman of the Physics Department, and George B. Kistiakowsky, Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry, both affirmed the need for thorough mathematical training in secondary schools, although they were dubious about requiring physics...