Word: thoroughness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...carry on the work, but with so large an organization it was difficult to keep in touch with all the members and receive their reports. This year there were only 77 men appointed by the Student Council and it has been possible for us to organize a more thorough system...
Said a critic: "After an evening's debauch among the vital pages of the Graphic, after a thorough perusal of the lore of 'Body-Love' Macfadden, the Manhattan 'Mr. Hyde' slinks into bed. The next morning, repentant of the sins of his lower self, 'Dr. Jekyll' emerges from the metamorphosic sleep, rushes to the nearest newsstand to buy the Times. Then, as he sips his breakfast coffee, he reads in neat, encyclopaedic columns -all the news that's fit to print.' But when the day's work is done, when...
...believes that if men are able to grasp fundamentals in thorough fashion, it is an easy matter then to shake them together into definite line-ups. In other words, he intends to develop his material first and name his line-ups when he knows what that material amounts to. This is not a radical departure in coaching, but a twist new enough to cause the focussing of a certain amount of attention on his efforts next spring...
...been unlocked only at intervals for 16 years. Within, everything, down to the minutest shirt stud has been kept by order of Alexandra exactly as Edward VII left it. Last week, Queen Mary, in the absence of George V who was hunting in Scotland, ordered and superintended a thorough cleaning preparatory to complete redecoration of this so-called "secret bed chamber." One good job done, Queen Mary passed to another locked bedroom door. Impassive but expectant the royal attendants waited. Would Her Majesty order that room disturbed? On the bureau had lain undisturbed for more than three decades a little...
...ventilation is by four stations operating 84 electric fans. Electric lights are placed every 20 ft. on each side; traffic lights every 240 ft. The capacity: 1,900 vehicles per hour at 12 m. p. h. each way. The tunnel will be opened to the public next spring, after thorough testing...