Word: thoroughness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week as though a mid-western cyclone had swooped upon the normally quiet campus of the University of Missouri. President Stratton Duluth Brooks stormed about "a fool trick without authorization of administrative forces." Irate alumni demanded student, even faculty expulsions. In St. Louis, Representative Robert F. Miller demanded a thorough investigation...
...wisely in refusing the invitation of Harvard Yale likes to take defeat with good grace, but we cannot refrain from observing that such a competition proves little of importance. Harvard may claim that she admits better material than Yale: she may even argue that her English department offers more thorough preparation for such at test. Yale would not dispute the point, because it is not worth a tinker's damn. It provides a source of raillery for Harvard undergraduates to use against their Yale friends: it probably also makes certain Harvard professors quite satisfied with their ability. But the "brain...
...difficulties. In the western part of the country there is a large power plant to which water is brought from a great head by huge pipes. The residents of the vicinity were considerably disturbed by a high pitched sound which seemed to be produced by the water pipes. After thorough investigation it was found that the noise was due to the number of blades in the rotors of the turbines and their relation to the speed of propagation of vibrations through water. A mere modification of the rotor allowed the disturbed people to sleep comfortably...
...emphasis of intelligent discussion rather than the defeat of the opposition is an appealing and practical phase of the new system. The oratorical outpouring of facts and arguments from an over-taxed memory will be supplanted by genuine and thorough understanding of all the aspects of the question involved in the controversy. Practical thinking will be bestirred and more valuable conclusions attained. By becoming an organic part of the whole procedure, the audience will derive a real benefit which only the privilege of questioning can provide. Debaters will resemble attorneys, who think on their feet and are so adroit...
...Able, thorough-going (when he took up golf six years ago, he broke 80 during his first season) Mr. Pelley has had many a knotty problem as Central of Georgia president. During 1927, gross revenue of the Central of Georgia decreased about $4,000,000 or 13.15%. There was a disturbing drop of 25% in passenger business and an even more disturbing drop of 10% in freight business. Both passenger and freight revenue continued to fall during 1928, although their decline was not so precipitate. No fault of Mr. Pelley's however, was this unfortunate situation. It resulted chiefly from...