Word: thoroughly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most thorough job of soliciting was done at Winthrop, where every member of the House was contacted. An estimated 92 per cent contributed...
...permanent method. As a result, Cornell has the most modern, if not the most successful language program in the country. The language is completely separated from the culture and no student is encouraged to read the literature of his particular language, as literature, until he has gained a thorough speaking knowledge...
Scrubdown. Since radium is under state control, Johnny Pierce's confession let the federal officials out of the case. But they had already been around with their Geiger counters, detected radioactivity at the motel and the drugstore that Johnny had visited, ordered a thorough scrubdown. State officials carried on, traced everybody with whom Johnny had so much as shaken hands that morning, got them started on the scrubbing routine. By week's end everybody except Johnny was in the clear...
...days later his mistress-and the mother of his daughter -killed herself; the child was raised by her paternal grandmother and aunt, who always spoke in reverent tones of "your poor father." Jeanne Modigliani grew up to be an art scholar, and now she has done a prim but thorough job of sorting out her father's miserable binge of a life...
...recording long overdue, and not only because it is the first representation of two famous composers. While it might be rash to say that the musical avant garde has lost touch with the concert-going public, it is certain that this public must be educated in a very thorough manner if it is to get more than a shock from a work by Stockhausen. Last year's New Music concerts in Paine Hall included several works by Stockhausen and members of his school; auditors were left with vivid memories of short bursts of highly involved music, inevitably punctuated by long...