Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Observer comes first. The power and habit of seeing in minute detail were upon him from childhood. Once, with a rare beetle in each hand and a third in sight, he transferred one wriggling creature to his teeth, with distressing results. He studied facial expressions of people in trains, of his children from infancy, of dogs, which always took to him. He would painstakingly count tens of thousands of plant seeds under his microscope. He devoted years and two fat tomes to barnacles. An invalid, he had to systematize his work rigorously. He trusted few reports save...
...Loser. His lifelong application to biologic detail cost Darwin dear (suggests Author Bradford) in other fields of interest: in literature, history, politics; in esthetic enjoyment of nature; in religion. Some Catholics asked him what he was. "A sort of a Christian," he said. Habitually moral, gentle, tolerant, noble-minded, this was the truest answer, yet he regarded himself quite simply and scientifically as "differing" from faithful folk who "make themselves quite easy by intuition." He avoided cosmic thoughts, kept his writing purposely free from Pantheism, stuck to his species and specimens and "let God go" as imponderable. The Lover...
...clearing house and give a greater continuity, clarity and force to student opinion. This want will be filed by the National Student Federation of America which meets at Anu Arbor in a fortnight to adopt a permanent constitution and extend its scope. Its projects will be discussed in detail later in this column, but its general topic for discussion. "The Student's Part in Education" sums up in one phrase the need for its existence and the essential work which it will accomplish...
...Conference plodded through imperial detail during the week and was understood to have secretly arrived at one notable agreement: hereafter governors general will have the status of viceroys. They will cease to represent the Crown and the British Government, and will represent only the Crown...
...careful not to claim that his portrait "is the man," and professes to give nothing more than a picture of the man as he sees him. He is equally modest in disclaiming any attempt to shed new light on Longfellow's career, or to criticize his works in detail. The reason of his book, he explains, is the poet's reprpesentative quality in American letters...