Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Medicine knows no full picture of senescence. It knows many details?what diseases are peculiar to the age, how young ailments cause old crotchets, how various body parts wear out, how the mind grows dull. Little more detail did the New York conference bring out. Of a score papers only three or four dealt with the hygiene of old age. Practically all the others dealt with specific diseases. Yet the meeting was useful in collecting scattered knowledge and in focusing medical attention...
...reporters are relieved of the necessity of watching detail of personalities, and can keep their attention riveted on their analysis of the type of play, and its sidelights. The "dirty work" of spotting is cared for by the men who are paid to recognize their friends at any distance and in any disguise...
...anything intellectual without assuming the title of scholar. It is doubtful if the amount of independent research work done in any undergraduate department can do more than develop the initiative and mental independence of the person involved. Scholarship only becomes dangerous when it centers interest on the piddling detail at the expense of the panorama of truth. Hardly before a man becomes a Ph.D. can he be said to have lost anything of value in the way of breadth...
...through the rather vague invocation, the remainder of the poem really pulls one on. Stephen Benet has charmingly combined a uniquely modern and sincere patriotism with an equally rare sense of proportion. Yet throughout the course of events which he vividly depicts--here in minute detail--there is sweeping epic style--and here again with a touch of human sympathy--one finds that justice has been a main chord. South and North, each has its turn--probably the reason both these sections of our country have acclaimed the book as a classic. A striking feature is the manner in which...
...have read that noted lawyer, Clarence Darrow, stated that Mr. Hoover drinks that he (Darrow) had taken a drink with him. Since you have gone into detail relative Nominee Smith, I request you inform your readers in detail concerning Nominee Hoover-Does Mr. Hoover drink? And what...