Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Also at defense Dan Ullyot regained his top form after a slow start against the Terriers. Ullyot's thorough knowledge of the position should strengthen the defense considerably for the second half of the schedule...
...usual stream of brass moved through the Pentagon concourse last week, top Air Force men occasionally broke formation and glided unobtrusively into a suite of neat, quiet rooms. Their object: a thorough hangar check for heart disease. Since 1950, more than 50 middle-aged Air Force executives-from the Secretary down-have undergone regular scrutiny by a team of Air Force specialists under Colonel Marshall E. Groover. The medicos can point to a fair record for the group: only 19 heart attacks, including six deaths (among men who did not follow recommendations). But the Air Force program may prove most...
...scene. To fulfill my demands for the role of Lady Macbeth would take a rare actress, which, I am afraid, Miss Browne is not. John Neville as MacDuff, Jeremy Brett as Malcolm, and Jack Gwillim as Banquo give distinctive performances, and the lesser roles are all handled with unusually thorough skill...
...Ticket Distribution" report which equivocally recommended that undergraduates receive seats in section 30, while former lettermen and Varsity Club members, current residents of section 30, retain their privileged seats. And if the "Food" report was gently termed "ill-advised" by its author, still, the "Growth" report was a thorough and serious argument against expansion. The dignity of the initial draft remains essentially uncompromised by the fact that the Council ground the report into a cornmeal johnnycake supporting "conditional expansion...
...best of the secondbest, and his growing status as "must" reading for highbrow novelists has been signalized by a T. S. Eliot essay. This biography by Nuel Pharr Davis, a University of Illinois English instructor, is intellectually skimpy, but as a personal history of Collins it is thorough, which may be just as well: Collins' life was no less intriguing than his books...