Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plan a life means to track the consequences of one's ordinary desires, economic, sexual, social; the desires for power and responsibility, for case and pleasure, for self-expression, for security, for adventure, for popularity. Economics follows up in detail the consequences of men's desire for wealth. Philosophy traces the results of our desire to know ultimate truth. Biology tells us what will happen, if we yield to our urge to understand living matter. So it is with each great branch of study. Each acquaints us with the results of human desire in a particular field. Social ethics compares...
Upon emerging from English 11B, in which Dr. F. P. Magoun '16 had been talking on "Paradise Lost", he said, "Do you know, it is very difficult to teach Milton to my students. There is so much mythology and fine detail which is unintelligible to the Japanese, that it is nearly impossible to teach more than a small amount of Milton's works. I was surprised at how quickly the teacher read 'Paradise Lost' and the boys understood...
...Army achieve the same result as that expected by the new regulation, but they at least allow freedom of choice a man may or may not "fall in" for church parade as he likes; if he does not, he "falls out" for kitchen police or some other disagreeable detail. Apparently only those who declare themselves to be oriental mystics or Mohammedan believers may escape the common...
...What, in detail, is the Income Tax Law (see below...
...hadn't been for them [the Szechenyis] nobody in America would have known about me, or wanted to hear what I had to say. Now, the American press is circulating my views in much greater detail than would have been possible otherwise, and magazines and publishers are after me to write articles. I must really pay Count Szechenyi a commission on what I get for my articles. I think 10% would be about right. He is a very good press agent...