Word: thoroughly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pacifists and practical politicians who made up Wilson's Cabinet; to the German Admiralty, to international law, even to the hoary traditions of diplomatic usage. On the 21st anniversary of U. S. entry into the War he published his findings. Called by Historian Henry Steele Commager the most thorough and dispassionate book on the subject that has appeared, America Goes to War* is a volume of 731 closely-printed pages, with controversial footnotes swarming like bees around the bottom of most pages, is at once a history and a primer of diplomacy...
Last week, having made a quiet but thorough examination of the bombing, Bayonne's Police Chief Cornelius O'Neill came to the conclusion that "that guy" was none other than Sparks Rogers himself, ordered his arrest. The wire used on the homemade bomb, said Chief O'Neill, was the same as that in one of Rogers' radio kits and the note had been typed on an office machine. Lieutenant Doyle recalled that Rogers, who generally opened the bureau's mail, had given him the package and asked him three times during the day to open...
...Moto, a soft-spoken Japanese with poached-egg eyes and a thorough knowledge of jujitsu, solved some nasty criminal problems. A boxing glove soaked in poison, and a gun with a time device set up under the prize ring and pointed at Mr. Moto's seat all fitted into the pattern of a shady betting deal. Mr. Moto establishes a connection with Charlie by instructing Charlie's collegiate son, Lee Chan (Keye Luke), in a criminology class...
...organization but merely to satisfy the various interested parties. As the sparks flew between Arthur Morgan and his subordinate associations, Mr. Roosevelt though it was their turn to move, not his, and sat back satisfied. The rupture came over Senator Berry's marble claim, for Mr. Morgan was thoroughly disgusted by then with the corruption, waste, and monopolistic intention of his organization. But it was Morgan's demand for a thorough Congressional investigation that brought the President face to face with the rather doubtful condition of the T.V.A. Not relishing any embarrassing revelation so close to the congressional elections...
...that considerable change has come about since the days of twenty-five years ago, when members of the committees actually attended lectures, took notes, and submitted suggestions. In line with a policy of securing great names, the Overseers have turned to the lions of New York, who, despite their thorough knowledge of their fields, have neither the time nor the inclination to come to Cambridge and see how these subjects are taught to Harvard undergraduates. Too often another motive appears to have crept in, and men of fame as well as fortune have been appointed with the hope that they...