Word: thoroughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inkspots & Removers. These unhappy trends, by Smith's analysis, have their beginnings in the teachers' colleges, where teachers are exposed to a thorough indoctrination of modern pedagogy, without which they could not hope for promotion ("Socrates himself would find it extremely difficult to be certified"). They waste valuable years taking courses in everything from the Rorschach inkspot method of diagnosing personality to the problems of student personnel administration. But what is education really for? The teachers' colleges, as far as Smith could determine...
When he was liberated by American troops in 1945, Czernyha went briefly to Insbrook Medical School and the University of Salzburg. When lack of funds was threatening to cut short his scholastic career, he applied for and received his Harvard scholarship thorough the International Refugees Organization...
...Touch That Soup! The murder went so quietly that the slaves decided to rob the old lady, too. While they were getting into her trunks, she revived. The second attempt was more thorough, left traces. It also terrified the few white people at Mulberry. When their maids offered to sleep in the same room, to protect them, the women were even more terrified. When they sat down to dinner, old Mrs. Chesnut cried: "I warn you! Don't touch that soup! It is bitter. There is something wrong about it." As it happened, the soup was all right...
...University's work laid special emphasis on the causes for a sharp decline in the population of Yap. Four major typhoons occurred while the study was going on, but this did not prevent the research crew from compiling a thorough analysis of the native culture with its age-grading custom and strict caste system...
Jalopies are just old cars that have been stripped down to attain a maximum of speed and safety and have been given a thorough engine job. Both front and rear fenders are pared off. Outsize tires on the right side are allowed to help the driver negotiate turns. The cars take a terrific beating but the fact that they seldom have to quit a race seems to indicate how substantially they were built originally and how well they are taken care...