Word: thoroughness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gauze "waters" of the river. Except for the fact that very few stellar singers could be mustered (most of them having been engaged for the Munich Wagner-season, which opened August 1), the Festival was reported as an unqualified artistic success. The huge choruses, particularly, showed the results of thorough Teutonic drill. The Bayreuth coffers are already well filled, and Wagner-festivals will probably be continued, indefinitely...
Furtwaengler is 38, a native Berliner, with a very impressive record?pupil of the boresome, but thorough, Rheinberger, theatre Conductor at L?beck and Zurich, successor of Artur Bodanzky at the Mannheim opera, Conductor of the Tonkünstler Orchestra at Vienna, successor of Richard Strauss at the Berlin Opera, Director of the Berlin Musikfreunde, of the Berlin Philharmonic, of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. On the score of previous experience, he holds his own with all newcomers...
Thus, before he is thorough, this charming old villain may very well persuade the Protestant Episcopal Church to abandon heresy-trials, to protect itself from the uncongenial members by divorcing them from the Church on the much simpler grounds of incompatibility. So wisdom will be justified of its eccentric children...
...fists; women shrieked; children ran howling .to their nurses. People in bathing knew not whether to seek safety on shore or under water. No wonder that strong protests were made by William T. Collins, Acting Mayor of New York, and that the Commandant of the Naval Reserve made a thorough investigation. But it was not the Naval Air Reserve that was responsible for the foolhardy flights. Captain Judson, of the Police Aviation Reserve, was to blame and has suffered a prompt dismissal...
...said Mr. Scott, "the most fruitful researches during the 20th Century will probably be conducted not in the natural sciences but in the social sciences. . . There is recognized a need for a thorough rewriting of all our texts on history, economics, politics, sociology, psychology, esthetics, pedagogy, ethics, religion. . . . Funds wisely invested in support of research in the social sciences will yield 100% annually for all time...