Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thorndike suggested compulsory preseason physical examinations, thorough training and practice, and complete medical attention as methods of reducing athletic injuries...
...20th century world: the upsurge of the peoples of Asia and Africa, and the conflict between Communism and democracy. The difficulties were immense. "For the first time in history," said Dwight Eisenhower, "an international machinery, set up by nations for the settlement of international disputes, is receiving a truly thorough test...
Moshe Dayan, devout student of Von Clausewitz and of U.S. airborne operations, was perhaps even more justified than the British and French in his self-congratulation. "I am confident," said Israel's Prime Minister Ben-Gurion, "that military histories will make a thorough study of this remarkable operation...
This week we publish the net of our findings on how the states will go (see p. 23). This forecast is based on two thorough canvasses of the states - the first in early October, the second right up to closing time last Sunday night. This is the way it looks to us in the home stretch...
Those misunderstandings Cragg traces to the initial fact that Mohammed had no thorough acquaintance with the Bible. He was ignorant of the meaning of the Christian doctrine of the Trinity and the sonship of Christ. To him Christ seemed a rival of the One God, and that Mohammed could not accept. Accordingly he reduced Christ to the status of one prophet among many and gave him a few brief pages in the Koran. Even today Moslems refuse to consider Christianity a monotheistic faith because of this early misreading of Christ. Nor could Mohammed, for whom it was unthinkable that...