Word: detail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week genial Colonel Adler, who served overseas with the 77th Division in 1918, told a group of Princeton alumni and students about a bill which was being drawn up for Congressional action. Most interesting detail: not only young men would be drafted, but about 15% of the draftees would be men from 32 to 38, and 5%, men of 38 to 45 (on the proved theory that groups combining different ages and various levels of intelligence do the best soldiering...
...secure revision of the distribution requirements. Reviewing the attempts of the 1939 Council and the present Council, urging the Faculty to set up broad "Areas" of Concentration, he said that the Student Council Committee on Education, headed by Blair Clark '40, will soon submit a report "describing in detail suggested Introductory Area courses" and answering objections to them...
...President watched the world. Daily he scanned maps. For three weeks he has discussed battlefield contours in military detail with U.S. experts; again & again they have whistled respectfully at his apparent knowledge of Flanders-hills, creeks, towns, bridges. The President's particular forte is islands: he is said to know every one in the world, its peoples, habits, population, geography, economic life. When a ship sank off Scotland several months ago, experts argued: Had the ship hit a rock or had it been torpedoed? The President pondered latitude & longitude, said: "It hit a rock. They ought to have seen...
...rates down, Grover Loening had a plan which he had set forth in bookkeeping detail in his brief to CAA. First step to air-express service, said he, is air-express planes: efficient freight-luggers built without the doodads of passenger craft, thus capable of carrying a bigger payload on the same horsepower. Airline men gasped when he first said that 345 8-ton airplanes could carry all the express now handled by the railroads, gulped when he figured out for them that a fat profit could be made at rates 1½% times rail rates. Urged by Loening...
...line in relation to the idea which he desires to express. He manages, fully and with apparent case, to convey the implications and framework of the story for which his illustration is created, without confusing the reader. Turner shows imagination, a sense of coherence, and an intelligent suppression of detail in his work...