Word: thoroughness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trifle. They need exercise. Industrious chewing is the best exercise. Most people, who pay attention to their health, know this. Few, however, know that they must put at least 1,700 pounds of pressure into each day's biting, chewing. Dr. Thomas Hartzell of Minneapolis says so. Thorough mastication requires 5,000 pounds of pressure. A person who eats properly uses enough strength daily to lift a 7-passenger motor...
Death by falling from great heights is pleasant-provided the smash-up at earth is thorough. Professor Heim of Zurich, who stated so last week, once fell off a precipice of Mount Saentis. He lit on his head and distinctly heard the thud. Stout, he recovered; introspective, he recalled his falling sensations. Delicious music soughed by his ears. He was very calm. Only after an hour from his rocky landing did he feel the pain of his broken bones...
...Minister Baldwin is keeping pigs, prime pigs, prize pigs. The daily sport of popular Prime Minister Bruce is to hop from home to office by private airplane, hop back, and thus stable his winged mount in the cellar of his residence. Last week Pigfancier Baldwin and Planefancier Bruce became thoroughly vexed with one another over the vital problem of British unemployment. Cables flashed from England to Australia told that Mr. Baldwin said, last week, in the British House of Commons: "The state of permanent unemployment in Great Britain may now be considered an Empire emergency. . . . His Majesty's Government...
...Thorough frisking by detectives of their prey showed that all 42 of the creatures arrested lacked certificates showing that the legal taxes and import duties had been paid upon their diamonds. With anguished faces and painful stomachs, they watched while unswallowed diamonds to a total weight of 2,000 carats were swept and gathered up by the police...
From Texas, Banker Traylor moved to St. Louis, then to Chicago. He brought a thorough knowledge of battling banking, a Texan wife (Dorothy Arnold Yerby), a distaste for liquor and a profound belief in the principles of the Democratic party. Last month, he surprised Chicago and surprised himself by going to Houston as a delegate-at-large from Illinois. Hidden among the Irish cohorts of Boss Brennan, Teetotaler Traylor studied the party, Al Smith, Tammany. Last week, he explained: "The drawback to politics in this country is that business men do not take enough interest in it. ... Professional politicians...