Word: detail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next step is to find a drug that will kill the parasites in the liver before they have time to erupt into the bloodstream. Dr. Shortt, 61, is willing to leave that detail to the chemists; he has an idea about African sleeping sickness that he wants to get right to work...
This week, the new council voted 4 to 1 to renew the movie license for a year. It looked as if the great god Progress might yet bring to Sioux Center's Main Street the last detail it needed to make it the duplicate of Main Streets up & down the land: a neon-trimmed marquee and posters showing Betty Grable's legs...
...Last Detail. Sioux Center's five-man town council ducked the issue, put it up for referendum. Once again, "Satan's tool" lost-by 61 votes. But that did not settle the matter. The Legion's lease ran until April 1, and the town council, which had leased the Town Hall to the Legion, was up for election before then. Meantime, the issue of a municipally owned light plant arose, and Sioux Center's high school team reached the semifinals in the state basketball tournament. In the excitement, the antimovie forces failed to line...
...About 800 of the 1,300 Stock Exchange employees walked out. Their places were taken by brokers and exchange members. Robert A. Magowan and Norman Smith, partners in Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane, helped run messages on the floor of the Stock Exchange. Vice President John Haskell headed a detail that cleaned up the exchange at night. Curb President Truslow and Chairman Edward C. Werle padded around as night watchmen. In a, day or so, the exchanges were operating almost normally, though the makeshift staffs sweated to keep up with the heavy trading...
...seen in such lines as "Proud parabolas upon the deep/Receding blue . . ." It is a pity that only one of his poems has been printed in an issue so barren of this kind of dynamic and beautiful writing. Joan Hyde's atmospheric "Night Picture" communicates through precise visual detail, but her other poem is less successful because it leaves sensuous impressions and starts trying to delve into the abstract...