Word: thoroughness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yale's elective program, like our own Distribution and Concentration, provides both for a sampling of many fields, and a more thorough knowledge of one or two. But in the latter direction. Yale goes even farther. Certain courses are considered properly introductory to certain others, and the new plan requires a student to take some of the advanced in addition to the elementary. Thus there is a direct compulsion to progress beyond the surface of a subject...
...were to suggest the underlying fundamental vice of American politics at this time, I would unhesitatingly declare that it consists in playing the game on too low a standard-far below the level of both the intelligence and patriotism of the voter. . . . Let us give to the country a thorough and fearless program. ... A Democrat in the days of Jackson was a crusader. A Republican in the days of Lincoln was an apostle...
...Government has armed forces at its disposal. ... It may happen, perchance, that armed forces may help some people to make up their minds. . . . We have solemnly promised to balance the State budget and this promise we must keep at all costs." A royal decree was issued providing for a thorough comb-out of all government departments with a view to cutting State expenditure. Persons over 65 or those who have had 40 years' service will be retired on pension. Power is given to Ministers to dispense with all employees not giving maximum satisfaction. The Army and Navy and other...
Before Senator Oscar Underwood sailed for Egypt last week he wrote the following sentence in a letter to a fellow Alabaman: " When I return I shall give very careful and thorough consideration to the friendly suggestions that are being made in reference to the advisability of my entering the fight for the Presidential nomination of our party...
Secretary Weeks has promised a thorough inquiry. No evidence of murder has ever been produced. A confession made by a bugler implicating Captain Rosenbluth has been retracted...