Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your magazine has the merit (to me) of being impressionistic and vivid. . . . Paucity and eclecticism of detail and connective render it eminently readable...
...this comedy, that is advertised as the "hit of the season," the symptoms of the infirmity are laid bare before the audience. Every detail of the eternal triangle, of love in the Middle West, of hideous interior furnishings, of efficient business methods, of small-town family life, is ready for you if you are suffering from the disease. If, on the other hand, you are one of the sophisticates who shrug a shoulder at such things, you will probably find the play as effective a satire as "Main Street" or 'Beggar on Horseback." The only flaw in our enjoyment...
...will say", Judge Grant asks, after mentioning the varied callings of the present Board in detail, "that this is not a well proportioned and representative list of alumni qualified to serve in this capacity...
...Massachusetts University, likewise celebrated his birthday, during the past fortnight, as he has done every year for 91 years and rarely, it is believed, without due notice from the press. What he (Dr. Charles W. Eliot, erst head of Harvard) did on his birthday, was set forth in detail in newspapers throughout the land...
...Mathematics will be given on June 2, in Latin and French on June 3. There will be three examinations in each subject-for seventh, eighth and ninth grades. Each school will administer its own examination and correct its own papers. "What the child must know," is set forth in detail for each subject in the catalog...