Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Southern press, up against tough and delicate problems, also has its shining examples of courage and fairness in handling its No. 1 story. In Tuscaloosa, from offices less than two miles from the University of Alabama, Editor Buford Boone of the News (circ. 15,681) topped off thorough coverage of the Lucy story with a hard-hitting editorial: "The university administration and trustees have knuckled under to the pressures and desires of a mob . . . We have a breakdown of law and order and abject surrender to what is expedient ..." The Montgomery, Ala. Advertiser (circ. 60,144), which sees no integration...
Died. Clara Savage Littledale, 64, perky editor of Parents' Magazine (circ. 1,643,000, largest in its field) since its founding in 1926, who crusaded for better pay for teachers, school lunches, improved health exams for children and more thorough care and training for mothers; after, long illness; in Manhattan...
...take such a group and not only teach it a whole new set of fundamentals but also come up with a homogenous playing unti is a job that calls for a thorough knowledge of the game and an aptitude for handling people...
Then came the first question: "Mr. President, are you-will you entertain some questions about your political future?" The President did not dodge. "All of the considerations that apply to such things are complicated," he said, "and it takes not only a thorough studying of each one before you are ready to talk on them, but naturally I will want to confer with some of my most trusted advisers ... I would say that the presidency is probably the most taxing job on the-as far as tiring of the mind and spirit, but it also has, as I have said...
...Unikted States should alter its public school system so that exceptionally talented students can receive more thorough college preparation, James B. Conant '14, President Emeritus said last night...