Word: thorough
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Zdenck V. David, 3G, president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Student Council, said last night that an intensive and thorough study of the financial needs of graduate students should be made...
FROM the deep-frozen midriff of Canada to the near-tropical bottoms of the Rio Grande, an unusual army of 8,000 or more hunters scoured the continent last week. Theirs was a gentle but rugged sport: they were afield from dawn till dark, slogging "Over hill, over dale,/ Thorough bush, thorough brier/Over park, over pale,/Thorough flood, thorough fire . . ." in pursuit of their quarry. When the chase was over, the hunters had no trophies to show, for they did their hunting with nothing more deadly than binoculars and telescopes. They were devotees of the flourishing sport of bird watching...
...table set up for the occasion were four doctors. As the ailing Pope raised his hand in blessing, all knelt for a short prayer. Then, at last, the doctors were able to begin a task that should have been done months, if not years ago: a thorough X-ray of their patient's intestinal tract. (Many times during his recurrent illness the Pope could not have stood the process, but some Vaticaners feel that there were plenty of opportunities between the crises when X-rays could have been taken...
TAXATION IN THE UNITED STATES, by Randolph Paul. No light reading here, but an able, thorough discussion of the nation's tax problems and policies since the birth of the Republic...
...your footnote relating to the Air Transport Command's solution of the sooty-tern problem on Ascension Island during the war: I have always heard rumors that they did a very thorough job of simply throwing rocks at the birds - in fact, they did so well that they left no tern unstoned...