Word: thoroughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bender also requested the Council to start a thorough probe of the entire advising system, which, he explained, is being considered by a faculty committee...
Medicine is one part human sympathy. Another part (at the opposite extreme) is an ever-growing assortment of complicated gadgetry. At the American Congress of Physical Medicine in Washington last week, two medical machines were given a thorough going-over...
Embraceable You (Warner) is dispensable entertainment. Dane Clark, chauffeuring a gunman away from a killing, hits & runs from a pedestrian (Geraldine Brooks). Geraldine is almost as thorough a guttersnipe as Dane is. But according to this story, there's a lot of good in even the worst people. In any case, the boy remorsefully visits the girl in the hospital, never letting on, of course, that he was the driver. The girl, too, is pretending; she doesn't really feel sick at all. But Dane learns from the doctors that he has given her an inoperable whatsis...
Technology. In Ann Arbor, Mich., the city did a thorough job of resurfacing streets, later had to dispatch an expert with a mine detector to locate the manholes...
...President Manuel Roxas refused their demands, unseated seven Congressmen sympathetic to the Huks. The Philippines' fat, hard-driving new President Elpidio Quirino thought he would change all that. For two years no high government official had entered Huk territory without a formidable escort. Quirino made a quick but thorough tour of the disturbed areas, without fanfare and with no other vehicle than his own sleek Packard. In broiling La Paz, he spotted a stooped little man whom he himself, when Secretary of the Interior, had discharged as mayor (for insubordination) twelve years before. From the man's cartridge...