Word: detail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flemish painters and musicians ranged over Europe with the pomp of diplomats, asked high prices from competing princes and even taught a lesson or two to the artists of the budding Italian Renaissance. Today the finest mementos of Flanders' peak century are the small paintings, done with the detail of miniatures that are known to museums and collectors as "Flemish primitives...
...final. For the past two years, the Department has been trying a new way of covering the vast field of English Literature. Six roughly chronological groups have been set up and each one subdivided into subjects like poetry, drama, fiction, or individual authors. All this is explained in detail in the tutorial bibliography, which future concentrators should purchase at the Coop and look over. The groups which are listed in the bibliography are covered in tutorial and in regular course work...
Four courses are the minimum requirement for concentration plus two related courses, as the Departmental pamphlet outlines in detail. Once in the field the concentrator will select a special subject for specific work. At the end of his Senior year he will take a general examination in either Geology or Geography and a special exam in his specific section...
...does not detail his picture of a better economic world, but he foreshadows it by insisting that, whether men like it or not, Government must operate the nation's peacetime economy as it operates the wartime economy...
Further, their dispersion was in a relatively small area: they might go out as a fleet, to destroy a superior enemy in detail. In a swift hit-&-run battle in the fogs of the North Sea, a well-fought engagement might strike a body blow to the British Home Fleet...