Word: thoroughness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from forty-eight states and one territory (Guam), forty-nine suggestions have been received. The ylang-ylang was Guam's choice for the national flour, while that of Massachusetts was the dandelion. Apparently the radio, being audible and not visible, has mixed flower with flour. In ordinary circumstances a thorough mixing of flour is essential for good results, but it is another matter when the flours are election issues. After due consideration the judiciary committee has postponed the balloting indefinitely...
...same necessity which has forced German students to abandon any prewar notions of the degradation of working-a-way through college, has led them to a thorough distaste for the policies and forces which brought about the present state of affairs in Germany. The whole tone of "Genug und Gut" is far more wholesome and indicates a complete face-about from the war-time, "Ich und Gott." If the powerful new student organizations are sincere in their efforts and carry their ideas into effect throughout the nation, the future of Germany rests secure in safe and moderate hands...
...Officers' Training Corps at Cambridge, said Mr. Thayer, while not so complete or extensive as the great military schools of Sanders and Aldershot, which correspond to West Point, gives a man a thorough three year course in one branch of military service, and leads to an active commission in the British Army...
...Fundamental training in the sciences, especially Mathematics, is very thorough at French scientific schools, and students are usually very well prepared on the scientific side. This high standard of scholarship is largely due to the competitive examinations which are very general in France, and which have long been used at the Paris technical schools, but which are only just being introduced at the provincial universities. To enter, for example, the Ecole Polytechnique, a student must not only have graduated successfully from his secondary school, but must also pass an entrance examination among the highest 75 of perhaps 2000 applicants. High...
...feat may apply to Captain Smith aboard the "Success" at Warren Bridge next Wednesday, October 11, at 9 A. M. The test will begin at 10 o'clock Monday morning, October 16, and last until the same hour the following Monday. Applicants must be of good constitution. A thorough physical examination will be given before and after the test...