Word: thoroughly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Rathom is best known as the editor of the Providence Journal. Since the beginning of the war he has been strongly in favor of more thorough preparation, and has been very active in disclosing German propaganda. He has brought to light many schemes against the United States, plotted by Teuton spies...
...continue. Brown and Pennsylvania State authorities feel that the students ought to be able to enter on various forms of service at the earlier date, if it is quite possible for them to do so by a little more effort. In carrying out the scheme, Brown will make a thorough canvass of the student body to determine each man's qualifications for summer service in order that he may be placed to advantage...
...Plattsburg officers' training camps together with the encouraged promotion of men from the ranks, leaves preliminary instruction more necessary than ever. Whether or not the present system of sending men to Yaphank continues, we know that ultimately a man of sufficient calibre will be an officer, and that thorough preparation will hasten the attainment of this end. The duty of R. O. T. C.'s is to provide not merely candidates for special camps, but soldiers with sufficient bearing and knowledge to mark them out at once as leaders. To all who are so trained General Pershing's plan assures...
...would be especially valuable for Harvard to supply a proportion of young officers whose training had not been an emergency and intensive training, but a thorough preparation. It is further the case that there are many details of military education in which the methods and the science which the Faculty command could be utilized for improving and developing the methods of instruction now in vogue in the army; for these are, in many particulars, much out of date. In other words, Harvard
...stringent examination covering eyes, ears, heart, lungs and sense of balance," and who possess a college education or its equivalent. Note that last word. You are passed at once on a college diploma if the physical tests are met, but, lacking a college record, you must have a thorough knowledge of internal combustion engines, the difference between tractor and pusher types of airplanes, between four-cycle and two-cycle motors--all this, notwithstanding the fact that the collegian gets by regardless of whether he knows a motor from a wheel barrow. Boston Advertiser...