Word: detail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have something to do besides sitting around feeling sorry for yourselves. I believe it will make some other people worry. What will it look like to the people uptown to see 20,000 men doing squads right? And you're going to do it if I have to detail 500 military police to force you! This...
Abolish Bombing! As expounded in detail by the President, his proposal stresses not only reduction but abolition as a guiding principle in Disarmament. Thus he called for "abolition of all tanks, all chemical warfare and all large mobile guns...
...adequately fictionalized, is the period after Queen Elizabeth's death, when religious malcontents fled England for Holland, cleared out from there for a newer, presumably better world. Pilgrim Fathers & Mothers are the heroes & heroines of Authoress Carlisle's book. In We Begin she paints, with meticulous nicety of detail, an historical mural of extraordinary scope. Following muralist technique, she manages to make her characters striking but not too personal, her details vivid but not too bright. Only a theatrical ending tarnishes her brilliant scenario...
...Merchant Adventurers, they are furnished transportation. With their embarkation on the Mayflower the story enters more familiar ground. But the actualities of the trip, the landing at Plymouth, the first buildings, the first plantings, the first Indians and their strange ways, all are materialized by Authoress Carlisle in fascinating detail. Meanwhile the struggle between John Dexter and Eleazar takes an unexpected turn. Hopeless of his brother's wife, Eleazar transfers his unholy zeal to an orphan, Purity, whom Anne has adopted on the Mayflower. His passion, countering the similar passion of John's son, David, is ended only when...
Attention To Detail...