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Word: thoroughly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thank you very much for your thorough view of occupied Japan . . . I want to tell you that we are steadily recovering from moral chaos . . . Small kind behaviorisms are seen in the street very much oftener now than just after the war. If we are able to go through the economic hardships of this year and the next, we should be one of the peaceful and honest nations of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 30, 1949 | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

...Education Service closed as usual during the summer. At the opening of the fall term, on September 24, the Board of Regents announced that the workers' program would be suspended until a thorough examination could be completed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U of Michigan Ends Worker Education School | 5/27/1949 | See Source »

...psychological study, "The Quiet One" is thorough and well-connected. It uses no technical terms, but some of the manifestations of guilt complex and frustration may be rather obscure to the non-Social Relations major. The picture does not give a blueprint for the treatment of all juvenile delinquents, and it is certainly not a publicity handout for the Wiltwyck School. It attempts to show the effects of insecurity on a young boy's mind, and the extent to which care and affection can overcome those effects. As the narrator points out, "there is no happy ending" to Donald...

Author: By David L. Ratner, | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/18/1949 | See Source »

...Busch has written, instead of a biography, a zippy account of the founding of 'Time,' with special reference to the life of Briton Hadden. A good bit of that account is fascinating, but taken altogether, it does not make a satisfying book. For the result is no more a thorough picture of 'Time's' origin and growth than it is a thorough job on Hadden...

Author: By Joel Raphaelson, | Title: Superficial View Of Yaleman Who Co-founded Time | 5/17/1949 | See Source »

Trainer Ben Jones is as thorough as he is wily, especially when preparing one of his Calumet Farm horses for a big race like the Kentucky Derby. He always insists on his jockey being around for days in advance to get the feel of the horse, and to study the strategy that is planned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: My Old Kentucky Jones | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

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