Word: thoroughly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...States capable producing the machines and the aviation service has been flooded with applications from men ready to serve the country as airmen. Nine months of training however are needed to make an efficient military aviator, as the courses conducted by the Government are of an exiremely rigorous and thorough nature...
...That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to take immediate steps not only to put the country in a thorough state of defence, but also to exert all of its power and employ all of its resources to carry on war against the Imperial German Government, and to bring the conflict to a successful termination...
Inasmuch as 17 shells will be put on the river this afternoon a large addition to the present staff of coxswains is needed. Previous experience is unnecessary and all prospective candidates will be given a thorough trial. University coxswains should report at Newell and Freshmen at Weld today at 4 o'clock...
...note with delight your editorial entitled "Compulsory Latin Must Go," as it seems to us the statement of a sage educational policy and is clearly the work of a man who knows the classics well and only turns from them after giving them a thorough trial...
...work of the cadet corps in the fall consists mainly in thorough instruction in close order drill and the manual of arms, with tent pitching, bayonet exercises, calisthenic drill and the like. The corps continues out-of-doors drill even through the winter months, except when such work is absolutely impossible. At such times the corps is addressed in assembly by men of authority, or meets by companies for instruction in and discussion of field problems in detail...