Word: thorough
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Last night, he said: "I believe that the Harvard Corporation after a thorough and deliberate consideration reached a just and wise decision in the cases of Professor Furry and three others last spring. I further believe that Harvard in a fine University and that McCarthy could not uncover 'a very smelly mess here'. I am prepared to answer questions as to why I hold these beliefs...
After a perfunctory, surface investigation, the Administrative Board only too readily has handed the problem of ticket abuses down to the Faculty Committee on Athletics. It is important that this committee should not be similarly anxious to sloughs off a thorough examination of ticket ethics and practices. Equally important is the manner and tone of such an examination. The deans fear that football players and managers may have been scalping their complimentary and preferred football tickets. And it seems a realistic fear. Instead of taking active steps against repetition of these wrongs, however, the dean's office issued a great...
After the conference. Major General Howard M. Snyder, the President's physician, confirmed the diagnosis and added some details. A month ago, Ike had undergone a thorough checkup of heart, lungs, bones, joints and blood chemistry. Said Snyder: "All of these [tests] came out in good normal order." The President's blood pressure is running 140 to 150 over 80 to 90-excellent for a man of his age (63) and type. Aside from the elbow and a few chronic minor troubles (he is farsighted, has suffered for years from a trick knee, injured in a West Point...
...degree (King Paul can add Doctor of Humane Letters to his many titles) from Columbia University, dined with U.N. officials twice and attended two receptions. Ahead of them loomed a formidable five-week schedule that will take them to the far corners of the nation in the longest, most thorough U.S. tour ever made by reigning monarchs. Behind them, King Paul and his buoyant Queen left some thoroughly tired Americans. "I could sleep for a week," sighed Mrs. Victoria Gainey, the housekeeper at Blair House. "But you must say so," replied Queen Frederika's personal maid: "She looked like...
...Paul's training is thorough. As the only English cathedral that gives a free boarding-school education in exchange for singing, it gets the cream of the youthful crop. At the last vacancy (which opened up when a member's voice gave its first adolescent croak), 72 boys applied for the position. They were given intelligence tests, scholarship tests and as many types of musical-aptitude tests as an eight-year-old can take...