Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fine record of their graduates, even when measured in such strictly academic terms as high per cent of graduate school admissions or fellowship awards, does not establish the applicability of their system to large numbers of students. Swarthmore's the most thorough in its discard of grades, includes only about 200 students, and these are drawn from a group of 900 which is already about as highly selected as Harvard...
Johnson, when contacted last night, said that he thought this "a fairly good proposal." He admitted that the present organization did not contact everyone, and that more money could be raised through a more thorough drive...
...permanent drives set-up" does prove more thorough, he added, it might do a better...
...sections covering each of the great fields of law in which Shaw rendered fundamental opinions: the Unitarian controversy, the blasphemy uproar, the law of slavery, segregation, railroad law, labor law, criminal law, state regulation, and constitutional law. Within each section, then, he devotes considerable care and ingenuity to a thorough explication of the cases, as well as a treatment of the historical setting against which the litigation must be viewed...
...Colorado Springs by Architect Jan Ruhtenberg which features sculptural shell concrete forms with adjustable walls that can be thrown wide open to empty a full house (3,000) in 1½ minutes. Abroad the boom resounds even louder, with new structures rising and war-damaged buildings getting a thorough refurbishing...