Word: detail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME concedes a resemblance (see enlarged detail); but evidently Britain's King, Queen and Prime Minister (in the same picture) did not notice...
...Officers of the Japanese Army (and of other foreign services) on detail in the U. S. but not diplomatically accredited must register (but of course cannot be drafted). Informal but angry protests failed to shake the legal fact that all aliens between 21 and 36, unless specifically exempted, must register (but can be drafted only if they have applied for citizenship). Though the fact was not heralded, the U. S. will thus get a complete census of all aliens of military...
...canali do not show up clearly in photographs, because the photographic image of the planet is so small that a time exposure is necessary, and the turbulence of the earth's atmosphere then blurs the detail. The streaks show up better to visual observation, but observers disagree on what they...
...artists shuddered to see an un-Whistlerian bunch of flowers interpolated in the composition. The Post Office avoided artistic blunders when, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Pan-American Union, it issued its best art stamp last spring. From Botticelli's famed Primavera (Spring) it selected a detail: the lightly clad, swirling Three Graces. But their identity was transmogrified. The Post Office said they were North, Central and South America. Designed by William A. Roach, lettered in 14th-Century style by James T. Vail, the Primavera stamp, larger than the average, was well worth the 3? the Post...
Quick to spot dramatic detail, General Paul's third eye was in a position to pry into everything from the love letters of the Internationals in the trenches to the secret sessions of the staff. Most of what he pried into, Regler got into his novel. For back of the eye was a mind burning with a deep hatred of fascism (publishers report that Regler was once named Nazi Public Enemy No. 19), a keen sense of the historical importance of the events he was observing, an almost religious reverence (Regler is an ex-Catholic) for the simple, anonymous...