Word: detail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...abetted by certain refreshments) even more so still. He describes, apparently accurately, and certainly graphically, the intimate home life of the whale. He jibes with the sharks you mention in saying that killing whales at that time is extremely easy (though he deplores the necessity!). By the minuteness of detail I would judge that Captain George Fred was a close observer. . . . R. G. M. Flushing, L. I. Trumpeter
Consequently it is the practice of the Harvard CRIMSON to welcome contributions and where space permits such comments as may emanate from the student body in response to a question of University interest will be published in detail. Only in this way may a medium of opinion be reached, opinion that is representative of the college at large. Otherwise the CRIMSON must rest upon the opinion of its editors in person, and as such, exist as a partisan and individual critic of the activities and movements that command interest among the body of students in the University...
Finally, the original documents, dismortgages, leases, corporation histories vision provides source material in the form of account books, letter books and other private unprinted papers which permit the student to examine in detail the experience of individual business enterprises of earlier years. Here are the documents relating to early cotton mills to banks to merchandising establishments, and the like--material which permits the investigator to penetrate even more deeply than he could through printed documents into the history of American industry.INTERIOR VIEW OF BAKER LIBRARY...
...purpose to go into detail or to explain motives but in reference to the so-called dispute with a Washington correspondent, Mr. Ray Tucker of the New York York Evening Post [now with Scripps-Howard chain papers] made a statement that I was a disgruntled ex-British Naval Officer. I informed Mr. Tucker that I was not British but had served in the U. S. Navy both during the Spanish War and, according to my resignation signed by Josephus Daniels, in the last War which shows that I gave to the United States Government and Great Britain the free...
...flew from Lossiemouth to Edinburgh, where strike conciliation efforts were in progress. Arbitration seemed overnight to have become his goal. After a morning of high pressure secret conferences with cotton folk the "Flying Scot" hinted to correspondents that a basis of arbitration had been laid, would divulge no detail...