Word: thoroughly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chips's life, is that, viewed in proper retrospect, his career is not the meaningless blank it appears to be. Believe it or not, Mr. Chips was young once, and so was Robert Donat, whose fishskin makeup in the first sequences is the most thorough- going physical transformation since the days of Lon Chancy. Believe it or not, Mr. Chips once courted a pretty girl in Vienna, and married her. And he was headmaster once, during the War, when all the able hands were at the front. Believe it or not, he did have children-as he swears...
...children are given thorough physical and mental tests before they are sent to homes for trial periods before legal adoption. Few children are ever returned to agencies. Religious ties are respected, and often children of mixed blood are supplied upon request. Four-year-old Al Jolson Jr. is half-Irish, half-Jewish, to match his foster mother and father...
Surgery. Americans, says Dr. Bernheim, are "hellbent for surgery" because it is dramatic and thorough. Although there are hundreds of outstanding surgeons who never rush into an operation, "too much surgery is done." Reason: Surgery "is easy money-it comes quick and there's lots of it." While family physicians, who suggest operations, are paid very small fees, "the surgeon is the big shot-and big shots cop the coin." Too often the only money a physician gets from an operation is an unethical "cut" the surgeon hands him for bringing in a patient (fee-splitting...
Since the days when President Eliot revolutionized the academic world with the elective system, Harvard has taken pride in allowing her sons to follow their own bent down the paths of learning. As a result the uniformity which a thorough grounding in the classics gave the Harvard graduate of thirty years ago has disappeared. Now Harvard turns out physicists, chemists, and social scientists, whose only common bond is the proven ability to swim 50 yards...
...yesterday's statement, Dean Hanford said he shared Dean Leighton's opinions expressed in the CRIMSON of April 27. The dean continued, "I am in thorough agreement with the general opinion expressed in the editorials that outside tutoring at Har- ing the pre-examination panic and rush to tutoring schools. Reviews are so important in the understanding of any course as a whole that they should be offered by the instructors themselves