Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...couse each boy was given an extremely thorough medical examination. To determine intelligence each was given a battery of intelligence tests...
German Documents. Neither thesis is new, but Author Wilmot has fortified his arguments with something more than hindsight opinion. He seems to have made more thorough use of captured German documents than any other writer on the war; and the list of officers, Allied and enemy, with whom he has talked, reads like a Who's Who of the war in Western Europe...
...last year, pregnant again, Lorraine went to Chicago's Presbyterian Hospital for a thorough check. The doctors found high blood pressure above her heart, low blood pressure below it. This, with a murmur heard over Lorraine's heart and other signs of abnormal circulation, indicated that she had suffered since birth from a coarctation (narrowing) of the aorta. The operation to correct this condition is drastic and dangerous; furthermore, there was no record of its having been done on a woman three months pregnant. But the doctors felt that the risk had to be taken...
...TIME today, and I have just read your excellent story about this remarkable businessman . . . With the exception of the way you treated the America First Committee, on which I'd give you some argument, I congratulate you on the balance of the article. It's a very thorough and thoughtful piece, and those who know the General will see him in it, in each and every paragraph...
...Manhattan last week, Father Tennien straightened out the record. It was true, he said, that Dr. Wallace, driven out of his mind by the Reds' unending and unbelievably thorough "interrogation" sessions, might have committed suicide. The day he died, two other Catholic missionaries, imprisoned at the same place, were shown his body, hanging from the roof of his cell. Strangely, however, there was no discoloration of the face or other signs of suffocation by strangling. His body, on the other hand, was covered with bruises from beatings. Only the Communists, says Father Tennien, know how he died, whether beaten...