Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Labor Office, and the various committees and commissions dealing with subjects ranging from opium to the movies: these, he said, represent a thoroughly complete organization. He said that news of many League activities never reaches the United States, largely because international relations are too subtle to be treated in detail in the public press...
...chief lobbyist of the American Farm Bureau Federation, called for general upward revisions averaging 100% higher than present rates on agricultural commodities. The argument, in effect, was: "We want these rates?because we want them." Few if any witnesses paused long enough on the stand to give reasons, to detail the difficulties of foreign competition, comparative costs of production. The fanner's attitude was that he was entitled to these increases by virtue of his vote for Herbert Hoover and that technical explanations were nonessential...
...purely for dis-interested enjoyment, yet compares favorably with his professional contemporaries both in substance and in vitality. Particularly interesting to undergraduates should be the lectures of a man who is notable for having brought a penetrating simplicity into a field too often obscured by a cloud of technical detail...
...Significance. Flashing with occasional interludes of traditional Vikings at sea, these five novels chronicle mostly the Vikings on land with their women and priests, their passions and prickly consciences. Rich in detail of 14th century manners and morals, the books are in the best tradition of magnificent historical novel, but in their universality they reflect the sum of human drama...
...life in each of the many cultures of the world can be systematically displayed. The staff propose to devote one large room to a general synoptic room covering the whole world. In addition, they will install at the entrance to each room, synoptic cases which will display in more detail the development of cultures in the section of the human race to which that room is devoted. The generosity of a few friends has already enabled us to start on the process of reorganization...