Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...detailed analyses of the various strands of philosophic and political thought that were synthesized in the Labour Party, from 19th century British idealism to contemporary socialist theory. The last chapter is a discussion of the psychology, practical politics, and economics of contemporary British socialism. It is somewhat less thorough than the rest of the book...
...Stassen it appears, is seeking some form of a liberalized sanity code. This is a pretty cloudy concept and the Ivy group directors would be grateful for a more thorough explanation. We hate to think that Mr. Stassen is using a college, and a college football team for furthering his personal ambitions. "Please the people no matter what they want," is an idea which is prone to exaggerated action...
...With this, Tibet's national independence quietly evaporated. Demoralized by the loss of their fortress and rumors of huge Chinese armies, the population of 3,500,000 waited helplessly for their conquerors. The Reds, anxious not to disturb their future victims in India, superseded military operations with a thorough propaganda campaign of "friendship and peaceful intentions." By December local agents had raised Mao's five-starred flag over the old Chinese residency in Lhasa...
...Responsibility. Pusan was already choked with 225,000 refugees (normal pop. 400,000), and had to be kept free for the movement of military supplies. At week's end, the U.N. army announced that once again Communist agents had been found among the refugees, ordered more thorough screening (which would be an added burden for U.N. forces...
...whip, hard knuckles snapped on tender heads . . ." It was not only whips and sour faces that bothered Whitman. He complained of the overcrowded classrooms he had seen, of the bad ventilation ("Every school room should possess a very high ceiling"), and of meager playgrounds. He advocated a more thorough study of American history, the introduction of music and botany. He saw no reason why children's chairs should not have backs, why their dull texts should not be "worthy of the best literary genius," or why their classrooms should not be brightened with "flower pots and pretty shrubs...