Word: thoroughly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whose standing is secure, the intimate relation of earlier times would hardly be advantageous. In the case of the student balanced on a knife-edge between probation and "passing on", however, personal acquaintance and personal information become of prime importance to the powers in University Hall. The really thorough investigation of each student's circumstances, and the manner in which each case is handled on its own merits, are refreshing proofs that the much-lauded human factor is not absent from the Dean's office...
...that time were made on wet plates, a sheet of glass covered with collodion and silver nitrate (sensitive to light) a few minutes before exposure. George Eastman, no scientist himself, tried empirically to invent dry plates covered with silver nitrate and gelatine. After trials and troubles which a thorough knowledge of colloidal chemistry, as he later learned, might have prevented, he succeeded in this effort...
...which he has been, until recently, free. Unless the widespread sentiment for him proves academic, he is signally a "people's choice." Business, as distinct from Finance, is on his side because it trusts him as a student of material wellbeing. Labor likes him because he is fair, thorough, gives clear orders. Women trust him because he is a high-minded man whose deeds need no retelling and, from him, get none...
...Photographic department offers a thorough training in the mechanics of photography. The candidates will be supplied with cameras, and will be instructed in the method of picture-taking, development and printing...
...Photographic Department offers a thorough training in the mechanics of photography. The editors will supply candidates with cameras, and instructions in the method of picture-taking, developing, and printing...