Word: thoroughness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge accompanied his father, Col. John Coolidge, to the Walter Reed Hospital in order that the latter might undergo a thorough medical examination after having spent years on his farm without close medical attention. While waiting the President decided that he would have himself examined likewise. The doctors were unable to discover important flaws in the health of either...
...Thomson's first important invention dates from 1876-a centrifugal separator for fluids of different density. He achieved the thorough lamination of armature cores, and in 1889 greatly improved electric-lighting apparatus. Other inventions...
...Whenever we hear of contributions which we think worth while investigating, whether from a political committee, a volunteer committee or from individuals, we shall make a thorough inquiry. This will apply to all organizations, including churches if they utilize money for campaign purposes, as well as to those who are interested in any phase of the Prohibition question...
Iraq. Approval of Great Britain's mandate for Iraq was postponed until the September session of the Council in order to permit the thorough examination of a recently concluded treaty between Britain and Iraq...
...Monitor. Dr. Butler 'did not advocate nonenforcement of the law; on the contrary, he placed himself on record as favoring obedience to the law; but he did demand that the Volstead Act and the 18th Amendment should be repealed as infractions of freedom and causes of immorality. A thorough search of a file of The Monitor failed to disclose that that paper made any mention of the speech on the following day. On the second day, a little three-inch article appeared, on the fourth page of The Monitor, saying that a Methodist had challenged Dr. Butler to present...