Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...things considered, we can see no toward from these measures that would not at best be offset and at worst outweighed by their detects. Amateur athletics are not something plastic adjusting briefly to popular indignation then resuming their neo professional shape. De-emphasis must be permanent and thorough, despite incidental irritations. We hope that the Ivy League presidents in meeting assembled this January will not tamper with their current program, especially for so little purpose as the Princetonian suggests...
...Sports Cars of the World" could have been a valuable and original book if Stein had done some thorough research and arranged his material by mechanical or chronological development of the sports car. Such a comprehensive study remains to be written...
...photographic board grounds candidates in the infricacies of the Sirobe and the darkroom while the business board gives competitors a thorough training in the methods of selling ads, selling up male and dummying papers...
...colleges and universities may spend millions for research, but there is one subject they consistently neglect: themselves. It was not until 1949 that the Association of American Universities finally set up a twelve-man Commission* to make a thorough investigation of the financial crisis in U.S. higher education. Last week the commission's long-awaited final reports were published by Columbia University Press-Financing Higher Education in the United States, by the commission's Executive Director, Economist John D. Millett of Columbia, and the 'Nature and Needs of Higher Education, by the full commission...
When the poet turns to an historical event in which to inject emotions of his own life and age, he is more successful. Conquistador, a long poem about the conquest of Mexico, reveals, a thorough understanding of war's effect on individuals. Composed in three-line classic meter, the poem is free of obtrusive personal comment and conveys brilliantly the horror of death, the elation of victory, and the awe of discovering new land...