Word: thoroughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there any need to go into a detailed examination of the distribution methods chosen by the Relief Committee. The World Student Service Fund has, along with Care and the American Friends' Service Committee, a monopoly on thorough, conscientious, speedy, cheap, and totally non-political distribution of food abroad. It differs from Care and the American Friends in that these organizations are concerned chiefly with the aged and the very young, whereas WSSF distributes food, books, and clothing to students. Both in its arrangements with WSSF and in its organization throughout the University, the Committee has taken unusual care to make...
...During the balance of the show, the audience follows a veteran detective (Barry Fitzgerald), his young helper (Don Taylor) and a swarm of assistants, from laboratory experts to pavement pounders, at the long hard job of smelling out suspects and closing in on the criminal. It is a remarkably thorough, fresh and engrossing exposition of big-city criminological methods...
...with a full set of plans for a new organization, which it chooses to call "The Crimson Key Society." Ideas of setting up some sort of welcoming committee for visiting athletes and other worthies began to pop up back during the late lamented football season. So, in its usual thorough but plodding manner, the Council gathered together a four-man committee, which worked long and hard for more than a month and finally produced a constitution for the projected Crimron Key, which needs only Dean's Office approval to go into immediate operation...
...strippers hastened to explain that they didn't peel any more. They just did "exotic numbers," "bacchanales" or "veil dances." But it looked much like the public disrobing of old, although not quite as thorough. One night, when the cops warned Stripper Georgia Sothern to watch her bumps, she replied: "Those are fake bumps, honey." The cops went away...
...TIME, however, tries to sift, sort, condense and explain the news by this simple standard: How much effort can an ordinarily educated and intelligent man or woman be expected to use in understanding this story? It's no use saying that 80 million Americans ought to have a thorough grasp of physics by this time next year. Whether they ought to or not, they won't. Until they do, the journalist who wants to communicate anything about physics must continue to explain certain rudiments in terms that readers will understand. A journalist who gives his reader simple...