Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more thorough analysis, however, suggests that this alternative was designed only for manipulation of the Freshmen. At first, a faction within the Council proposed that the "I don't know" response be regarded as a negative vote. The deviousness of the scheme is obvious: those without an opinion would in effect be casting a negative vote. Fortunately, the more conscientious members of the Council defeated this proposal...
...with its natural environment. It tells how to face it south to get heat from the sun's rays and how best to conserve the heat once it enters the house, how to design the outside to blend with the house's surroundings. And my cousin says it's thorough in the technical details. He should know, because he builds houses. I'm just a skinny, cerebral college student...
...students are given a thorough background in medicine, they're going to go out and practice medicine," he said...
Blue's material, when closely examined, displays a thorough awareness of his heritage. Occasionally he makes a presentation using slave chains a Harvard professor once loaned to him. "We all have a responsibility to break chains, real ones and invisible ones," he once announced at a men's prison. "It must be done in classrooms and in jail cells...everybody can break chains." With a glimmer in his eye, he asserts that at this moment a riot broke out in the prison. "A coincidence maybe, but this is what happens to a storyteller; if you give your life to storytelling...
...from a feminist perspective. These few courses cannot possibly satisfy all comers. It is to be hoped that once this university realizes that it is a defect not to offer courses in women's studies, it will also understand that the female experience and/or a thorough acquaintance with feminist theory will have to be a prerequisite for some, though by no means all, of them...