Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opinions generated in Dunster House by the conditions existing at the intersection of Memorial Drive and De Wolf Street typifies public reaction arising from a bevy of accidents at a particular location. As such, the reaction is commendable but the remedies proposed for the existing situation have lacked a thorough consideration of the nature of the dangers involved...
...main issue between Truman and MacArthur is whether the war should be limited to Korea. The record shows that in spite of his opinion, MacArthur, a thorough soldier, fought the war his commander's way, insofar as Truman's views were known. It would have been very easy for MacArthur to let "incidents" happen that would carry the war beyond the borders of Korea. Such incidents have not happened. By strict military discipline, MacArthur has kept flyers from chasing enemy planes beyond the Yalu River. Chinese shipping, bringing supplies to the enemy, has been at the mercy...
Despite the seemingly thorough academic union, Radcliffe offers four programs on its own, besides the Management Training Program, in which some courses are taught by Business School faculty. Independent ventures include summer courses in publishing procedure, in Secretarial Training, a program of Adult Education Seminars, inaugurated by Jordan this year, and a five-year with Massachusetts General Hospital and leading...
President Conant gets a thorough going over as a "red hot interventionist and globalist" who shields radicals under the "protective umbrella of academic freedom." For two columns Fulton reiterates his charge that the University a hot bed of subversive activity, but he makes no specific accusations of Communism against any person who is connected with the University...
...Miller] praises the American college system, in which the student gets a smattering of a great many subjects. He fails to realize that the European gets a thorough grounding in general education in the elementary schools and in the so-called secondary schools (Gymnasia and lycées); the instruction in the latter is more than an equivalent of our colleges. European universities are really graduate schools...