Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Victory. Soviet troops had advanced more than 200 miles into China's great Northern Province of Manchuria on two fronts (TIME, Dec. 2). Last week there should have been bonfires, triumphant parades, lusty bellowing of the Internationale in Moscow's vast Red Square. Instead, ghostly silence. Only the usual detail of Red Army sentries stood guard, their white breaths fuming in the frosty air, their close-fitting helmets exactly the shape of fat onions rampant, pointed upward. Suddenly the Prime Minister of the Soviet Union, Comrade Alexis Rykov, appeared, striding across the Red Square in his old leather overcoat...
...destruction of class solidity and in its way will be an invaluable aid to the success of the new experiment. If, without the express wish of the College authorities, men have found it convenient and satisfactory to retain their rooms for three years, this feature, an essential detail in the new scheme, augurs well for the success of the whole system...
...lecture he took up in detail the sub-classifications in that part of the scheme which runs from electrons to meteorites, which is called the Microcosmos. The subject most emphasized in the lecture was the great importance of the study of shooting stars. He listed and described many problems towards which important contributions can be made by the careful scientific study of meteors and meteorites. "Studies of the brightness of shooting stars", he said. "Indicate that the earth's atmosphere 50 miles above the surface is of about the same temperature as at the surface itself. Further knowledge...
...Alumnus Aquaticus" and "Anonymous Aquaticus" have carried on steady correspondence with Mr. Bingham, the while maintaining complete anonymity. Letters have been forwarded through the two New York banks in which the runds have been deposited; a steady stream of criticism and suggestion has been forth-coming on every architectural detail. And still Mr. Bingham, try as he may is unable to establish the identity of the two Harvard benefactors. A certain similarity in the letters signed by these two "anonyml", however, has lead the Director of Athletics to believe that they are one and the same. Further than that...
...blue squad to report to the Y Club for a skull practice, which lasted about two hours. The formations and plays used by Harvard this season were explained to the wearers of the Blue. Coach Adam Walsh, who scouted the Harvard-Michigan game at Ann Arbor, Michigan, explained in detail the strong and weak points of the Crimson line and also discussed the Harvard backs...