Word: detail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feature of the exhibit is the "Vectograph," a three-dimensional picture taken from the air, which, viewed with the naked eye, seems to be a blurred photograph, but which appears as a revealing photograph in three dimensional detail, when seen through a special polaroid viewer. Supplementing the 16-poster display is a set of pictures describing the officers' programs in the Yard...
...there was an incongruous detail never reported from any other death camp: nurseries for the children of women prisoners. On the nursery walls were pictures from Little Red Riding Hood and Babes in the Woods...
...mechanical detail never has been licked: the one-ton jeep locomotives have no effective brakes. Pushed by a weight many times greater than its own, one jeep plowed into a bullock standing listlessly on the tracks, was telescoped into junk by the cars behind and tossed up on top of a boxcar. So far, ten jeeps have been wrecked. Drivers have escaped injury by leaping clear...
...President of the Court read the accusation in detail to each prisoner. The accused was permitted to interrupt, deny any point, turn the reading into a conversation between judge and defendant. Counsels for the defense, most of them assigned by the court to take on the unpopular cases, stood by to press points of law favorable to their clients. Such time-consuming luxuries as character witnesses were barred. The cases were ticked off quickly. It took just 90 minutes to try and convict Suarez...
Finally arrived at the sanctuary of his club, the professor is seized upon by his closest crony, the District Attorney (Raymond Massey). To entertain Wanley, who seems distracted, the D. A. regales him with the developments of the sensational new murder. Detail by detail the professor is forced to listen to a relentless but far-from-boring reconstruction, from footprints, spots of blood and bits of hair, of the crime he has committed...