Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...detail, some of the charges against Governor Johnston were...
...report the Student Council expresses its desire to offer constructive criticism. The idea of a second Yard is fundamentally sound and at the same time is susceptible to whatever changes in detail further investigation may render advisable. The suggested participation of a committee of two Student Council members in a discussion on the subject by University authorities, no matter what the outcome, would both facilitate such adaptations and assure that adequate consideration was shown what is supposedly undergraduate opinion...
...wall of the north portion of the White House is a bell. On a recent afternoon. President Coolidge pressed this bell repeatedly, scampered quickly away. To the north portico rushed a detail of Secret Service men, to whom the bell's ringing was a summons to come at once. From a distance, the President watched their confusion, heard them ask the Secret Service man on patrol duty why he had rung the bell, heard the patrolman's denial of any bell-ringing. After the guards had dispersed, the President stole back, again pressed the button, again trotted away...
...short-cut process of computation used by the experts in the Bureau of the Census to turn out, in two or three hours, a correct apportionment of any number of representatives on the basis of any given populations of the states; but this is a matter of technical detail. The result is the important thing, and the result can always be checked up, in case of any dispute, by a direct and straight-forward application of the test...
Both biographies exonerate the Empress, but from extremes of viewpoint. With infinite richness of detail, and anecdote of close personal relationship that ended only hours before the tragic finale, the Baroness depicts her mistress as devoted mother, and faithful servant of Russia, indefatigable in charity, painstaking in her advice to the tsar. The Princess, on the contrary, emphasizes Alexandra's ineptitude for social leadership; her temperamental incompatibility with Russian subtleties of mood and method; her stubborn persistence in meddling with political affairs which she did not understand...