Word: thoroughness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Invited to attend were more than 500 potent U. S. businessmen, financiers & economists-from Vice President Norman I. Adams of the National Shawmut Bank, Boston, to President L. S. Zimmerman of the Maryland Trust Co., Baltimore. They came less to eat than to hear Professor Seligman explain the first thorough analysis of the installment selling problem...
...research party were five guides and pack-men and two other undergraduates of the University. John de Laittre '29 and W. R. Maclaurin '29. Thirty peaks never before scaled were conquered by the group of mountaineers, and a thorough study was made of the geology, glaciation, topography, and natural history of the regions explored...
Class followers of football will, on he whole, agree with Mr. Bingham's decision not to continue with the non scouting plan that has been given a thorough trial by the Harvard football authorities this fall...
...serious work in Greek, and some of the universities perforce by reason of the poor preparation of their students have degenerated into one sort or other of parlor-Greek. It is refreshing to me to be at Harvard once again, where for a student of Greek a thorough knowledge of the language is not an otiose desirability, but a necessity. Very sincerely yours, Arthur M. Young...
...equal Stokowski but he proved, by the thorough excellence of his performance, that the Philadelphia Orchestra was more than a tool for the musical genius of one man. In a hodge-podge of Handel, Stravinsky, Aaron Copland and Saint-Saens, the first was the best. Beside the Firework-Music (written so long ago as 1749 to celebrate the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle) Stravinsky's virtuosity seemed pale, Copland's Scherzo, flimsy. Pianist Josef Hofmann gave the evening a special glitter by an interpretation of the C Minor Concerto which was more profound than Saint-Saens'music...