Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...symphony of sensation maintained in daily newspapers plays to a large and enthusiastic gallery. Sordidness of all sorts has an appeal which Bares in the habitat of headlines. By a judicious selection of detail, the reporters turn a trial into a drama comparable to that of the Restoration...
Speaking before a full meeting of the student advisors for 1926-27 last night, W. E. Soule '27, chairman of the Freshman advisory committee, outlined in detail the plans of the advisory body for next year...
Students of civilization whose social studies have begun with biology as a point of departure have lately elaborated with an alluring richness of detail the theory of the burden of civilization. It is suggested that among civilized peoples each succeeding generation elaborates the social environment, increases the number of demands made upon the members of society, and complicates generally the problem of living and working. With the biological strength of the race at a standstill or on the decline while the burdens it must carry are on the increase, the time is likely to come in the life history...
John Teagle, his father and a successful oil man of Cleveland, stopped that notion, told his boy to go to work. Young Teagle did -for his father- and learned every department of the oil business. He has an infinite capacity for absorbing detail; so there was no wonder when he became vice president of the Republic Oil Co. at its organization in 1900. He went into the foreign field, became the great expert on oil export that he is. This eventually gained him the presidency of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey...
Although definite plans for the amalgamation have not been worked out in detail as yet, it is probable that the arrangements will be along the following lines: A new Committee on Debating will be formed by the Union and will act as a sub-committee of the regular Student Committee of the Harvard Union. This new Debating Committee will consist of the members of the present Executive Committee of the Debating Union with the addition of the two Graduate Secretaries and the Vice-President, who are ex-office members of all committees of the Union...