Word: thoroughness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...statement issued yesterday by L. E. Hickman 2L., one of the founders of the club, read in part: "The Republican party is in for a thorough house cleaning. If the Republicans do not set their own house in order, at the Cleveland convention, the voters will do it for them with great unanimity in the November elections...
...most successful results in fighting the boll weevil. Aeroplanes specially fitted for this work are now to be built. The poison is to be sprayed from under the wings, The aeroplanes must fly slower than any commercial planes ever built, 25 miles an hour, so that spraying may be thorough and unhurried...
Jordan Hall, Tuesday evening, Mme. Eva Gauthier, well known as intelligent artist and especially as interpreter of modern songs, in a program ranging from Bellini to Irving Berlin. Mme. Gauthier is only now receiving appreciation she has long deserved as a singer who is also a thorough artist...
...said that no Harvard graduates are ever killed in traffic accidents, on account of the thorough and intensive training which they receive during their College days in evading the frenzied motors which come flying up Massachusetts Avenue from Boston. This may well be so. It is a case for the Darwinians. But consider the freshmen, exposed to the worst conditions, possibly without adequate preliminary training. To them the Ice side of the rotunda must appear to be a special contribution of Providence for their safety while they are still serving their apprenticeships. Upper classmen, although now fully qualified as "artful...
...Scattergood, who, as a member of the original Red Cross Committee to France, and also as a worker for the settlement of Europe during the years of reconstruction, has gained a thorough knowledge of the situation, was the next speaker. "Language cannot describe the misery of the economic breakdown of Europe," he said. "Any work of good-will to relieve these people can have the most profound effect of any method that could be devised toward a settlement of international problems. We need a new spirit in international affairs, and with a new spurt, new things are possible. Harvard...