Word: detail
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...work of art, however, Professor Smith thinks it is inferior to the Eigla. The Njal is not like the Eigla, a single picture. In it we meet with a multitude of personages all thoroughly individualized, and the phases of Icelandic life are described with sympathy and richness of detail...
...innocents is not noticed in secular history is significant of his career. No notice of the massacre of a few babies could be taken amid a series of murders, of his sons, wife, relations, courtiers and subjects, which was in itself too great to be recorded in detail. When such were the characteristics of the reigning power it is not hard to imagine what the subjects must be. Hatred and violence could be held down only for brief periods, and issued again and again in the wildert revolutions. The puritanical Jew, outraged by insults to his religion and always watching...
...Costigan Jr., the temporary president who stated that the object of the meeting was to effect the permanent organization of the club. After the reading of the minutes of the last meeting, Mr. Watriss, as chairman of the committee, read a constitution, which, after being discussed in detail and amended in some slight particulars, was finally accepted...
...bill is defective in detail. - (a) It provides too large an increase in the circulation: Forum, Oct. 1890; Quar. Jour. Econ. April, 1890, p. 314; Coinage of gold and Silver.- (b) It adds annually to the circulation nealy $60,000,000. - c) Not more than $30,000,000 is needed. - (d) The provisions of the act are too inelastic: Report of the Sec'y Treasury...
Below is given the score in detail...