Word: thoroughness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Aeronautical Society has four pilots among its members who served during the war as instructors, they will be able to give instruction as thorough as that at service fields. Instead of ten hours of dual instruction, the maximum given by the Army or Navy, the Society will give a minimum of 15 hours...
...with the intricate problems of government which are steadily facing this country, there is an urgent call for a man of proved legal and administrative ability to guide the destinies of the nation. Governor Lowden best typifies the sterling qualities which are needed in our next president, for his thorough study of governmental problems together with years of legislative and legal work have enabled him to give the State of Illinois a sound government...
...meeting of all members of the Wood Club, when Congressman Lufkin, chairman of the Massachusetts branch of the Wood League, will speak. After the speech, the organization of the Club will be completed by the election of a president, secretary, and executive committee. There will also be a thorough discussion of plans for the future. Nominations for the various offices should be sent to the acting secretary, G. C. Barclay 1L., at 60 Brattle street, sometime this week...
...most promising bit of work is Mr. Low's story, "Coudreaux." It has obvious faults of immaturity, such as the attempt to treat in so few pages a profound and powerful motive in which much depends upon thorough characterization; but its author reveals an embryonic skill in tense narrative and a frequent combination of force with stylistic sobriety which imply that he has studied the best French raconteurs, especially De Maupassant. The greater part of the verse is vitiated by the common modern misconception that poetry is more a matter of highly colored language or of vapory obscurities than...
...private ownership and operation can, under the present circumstances, put our transportation system on an efficient basis, no one should ever again question its wisdom. The American people must with peculiar patience give private ownership and operation a fair and thorough trial. To do less would be to invite industrial chaos...