Word: detail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Specialists announce "fear of relapse is over" and review in detail stomach, heart and "paratyphoid influenza" symptoms, which had contributed to the disorder...
...Significance. André Maurois in-itroduces Author Green as "the best novelist of his generation." Others have declared him Balzacian, and murmured of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, for his uncanny realism is not of the modern self-conscious variety. Master of detail-heavy odor of wistaria over the garden wall, crunch of wheels on the gravel, pebbles shaping the brook into a plaited pattern-no single word is superfluous, and each image blends into an unforgettable whole...
...front feet of the chair turned to earth when the questioning began, but the smile remained and the cigar rolled easily about between answers which were not without a certain eager humor. The questions paralleled those asked of Candidate Hoover, though they were put less pressingly, in less finicky detail...
This is a strangely old-fashioned situation for so strikingly modern an analysis of emotions. No realistic detail is omitted. Her refusal to omit from any given sentence any possible detail has indeed made Author Newman's style more or less famous (The Hard-boiled Virgin). Hardly a sentence but begins with a while or a when or a since, and balances itself to lengthy conclusion. Literary critic of some merit (The Short Story's Mutations), she undoubtedly knows better, so the diagnosis is reduced to that of affectation...
...study of climates is necessarily extensive if there is to be any accuracy. Climatic conditions must be studied in detail, and the results tabulated and the maps filed. Each district has its distinctive data, and from the total mass of material accumulated from all the districts must be selected the significant. This is the cause to which Professor Ward is dedicating the Milton Fund award. No two men could possibly handle so great a quantity of work adequately; assistants are prerequisite, and for these assistants will the award be utilized. For the first time a field will be covered which...