Word: thorough
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Most banks are switching to the educational plan since it gives the trainee a thorough grounding in all aspects of the banking business and helps find the trainee's interests and capabilities in order to determine a permanent assignment which will be best from the point of view of his long-run development into an executive of the bank...
...idea behind Pro Deo is to combine a thorough background in Christian philosophy with training in what Father Morlion calls the "new social professions" -journalism, the movies, business administration, labor relations. By concentrating on these, Father Morlion thinks, the university will be influencing the most active managers and molders of the future. As undergraduates, students move on from philosophy to economics, labor, and political science, can later specialize in their chosen careers. Their work is anything but orthodox: cinema students actually help shoot Italian films; journalists work as legmen for Rome reporters...
...biography and autobiography had the most interesting time of it, month in, month out. To be sure, the year's first big guns fired blanks. Carl Sandburg was curiously flat in Always the Young Strangers, a long reminiscence of his own youth, and Scholar Edgar Johnson was thorough but wooden in his Charles Dickens. But there were better things to come. One was an excellent first volume of a definitive biography of Sigmund Freud by a distinguished British disciple, Dr. Ernest Jones. Biographer Andre Maurois published his best book, Leila, about man-eating French Novelist George Sand...
Abroad, that 564 guarantees bed and board but little else. More important, because not every American has the opportunity to know a foreign country really well, lack of thorough reading knowledge of at least one foreign language shuts out many stimulating and pleasurable experiences...
...important a position in the curriculum as it deserves. A good part too is the fault of teachers who make language training an unpleasant chore or merely a set of grammatical constructs. Some strides are being made in speaking the language from the start--the easiest, fastest, most thorough and most enjoyable way to learn; as the language becomes meaningful and can overcome a student's natural laziness or disinterest. It is still not enough to provide a much-needed tool for successful understanding and handling of America's role in world affairs...