Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Interpretations of this study, as reported in last Sunday's "New York Times," were optimistic. They assumed that these figures might spur educators to a more thorough study of television, with an eye towards grooming the medium for a major role in educating America's youth outside of the classroom...
...although Lamkin's tale of an aristocratic family's decline in a back water Louisiana town seems to have been told before, the author's thorough understanding of his subject matter prevents his first novel from becoming merely an echo, hollow as the life of his virginal, bachelor story-teller, Henry Nelson...
...there any fire at all below Joe McCarthy's smoke signals? Maryland's thorough and careful Democratic Senator Millard E. Tydings, chairman of the investigating committee, promised "neither a witch hunt, nor a whitewash...
Many infant deaths are reported as due to "accidental suffocation" because few autopsies are made, and most of these are not thorough enough. Dr. Bowden, chief pathologist for the state of Victoria and head of the Melbourne morgue, did a series of 40 detailed autopsies on babies who had died in their cribs, most of them supposedly from simple suffocation. He did not find a single case which clearly fitted the diagnosis. Sometimes, he reported, "the exact mechanism of death is obscure," but "in almost every case natural disease was present...
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