Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...concert of the Instrumental Clubs last evening was too full of high spirits, musical talent, and a rich variety of entertainment to be described in adequate detail...
...facts are presented and the student is expected to work out a possible solution by applying the principles which have been developed from the lectures, text-books, and other assigned reading in the course. In other event an attempt is made to give the pertinent facts in sufficient detail so that the student may have a clear picture of the actual problem...
...general discussion . . . Certainly it is hard to defend in a report which furnishes the basis for an at- tack on official estimates. . . . This is hardly worthy of a businessmen's report." Banker Pierson, unabashed, stuck to his guns. He intimated that the Chamber would reply in detail. He said: "The constituency of the Chamber is a cross section of the country. . . . After all, it is Congress which will pass the tax bill-not the Treasury Department, nor the National Chamber...
...Christmas sales of TIME, sneaked in as answer to a correspondent; then, dear God, a letter saying that a ham actor (Adolphe Menjou) reads TIME, followed by what appears to be an anthology compiled by some forester in praise of one of your customary impertinences; then, mianmian, "no detail is too petty to try to print correctly;" then you order a subscriber to REREAD your "political spectrum," whatever that is; the last three letters a mere waste of space; all are included because they pat your funny little paper on its curly, flea-bitten head...
...copy desk, and have all the snap of a star reporter. But their present appearance in book form makes possible, in addition, a more finished and artistic treatment than is allowed by the exigencies of a first edition. There is included a wealth of descriptive and dramatic detail,--excerpts from psychiatrists' reports, selections from letters, transcripts from diaries, bits of testimony,--worked in with the essential facts of each crime. And so skillfully is it done that the imaginings of a Conan Doyle or an Arthur Train seem like poor, pale stuff in comparison...