Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...because of treatment which his brother had received at the hands of a Princeton football team. Professor George L. Owen, father of George Owen '23, is the signer of a letter released by Mr. Hubbard in which he offers to appear before a properly authorized committee and "relate in detail my personal impressions on this subject...
...this country we have a bad misconception about divorce suits. We assume that because the law is invoked every detail then becomes public property. This is wrong. . . . We invoke the law when we perform a marriage, but we do not give the public the right to know what the bridegroom said when he proposed, or all the details of what took place after the wedding...
...were lost once for five weeks," said Dr. McGovern in reply to a question. "The South American has too much imagination. Not satisfied to leave blank the unexplored part of his continent, he fills the map with detail. When one reached a point where the map shows a river, but there is none, it causes uncomfortable confusion. We had to live on monkey meat and caterpillars, great fuzzy ones. I never thought they would be so tough, but these took a lot of chewing...
...which the reader must follow subjectively, by the impressionist method. A crucial telephone talk may last several chapters, the words actually spoken falling pages apart while numerous causes, consequences and chunks of mental and emotional background are tracked down in hurried asides. Yet such episodes, and much apparently meaningless detail-such as a sonnet composed on a challenge in two and one-half minutes -come into focus sooner or later. The total effect is vivid, clear and all the stronger for its slow fusing...
...There is nothing similar to Harvard's magnificent business center. No other American university has anything like it. It is complete in every detail and surpassingly beautiful. Am I being facetious when I say that all it lacks is a golf course...