Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Practicality does not thrive in circumstances where shortage of officers makes it necessary to detail, as instructors with civilian components, officers who have not had sufficient duty with a unit of their own branch of service. Practicality does not thrive in inactive units, depleted strengths, imaginary maneuvers, paper plans, fictitious reserve stocks and theoretical weapons...
...interested in your article on Peter Veregin, in your Nov. 17 issue, Page 17. To me, this is a positive proof of the authenticity and correctness of your news, as your article on the death of Peter Veregin was more interesting, contained more facts and was nearer correct in detail than any of the newspapers right here in Winnipeg. Thought you might be interested in this fact...
...That, as compared with the navies of Great Britain and Japan, the U. S. Navy is "weak to a point of serious and alarming degree"?in fact, lags far behind the other two in strength. This point Mr. Shearer supports with a mass of detail similar to that given out by him last spring...
...financial side the modern university is a huge and multiplex corporation. Requiring sound business organization in a mass and flexible administration in every detail. Educational it confronts a well high insoluble problem, that of teaching modern scientific methods without neglecting the humanities, and of inculcating a liberality of mind that stops short of destructive radicalism. Conceivably, the graduate, in the intervals of carnival rejoicing, might accuse his Alma Mater of sacrificing teachers of might to a balanced budget, of accumulating laboratories while the classics decay, of grinding the face of liberalism beneath the heel of the business man's conservatism...
Labor conditions in Italy were such that great delay in the building was unavoidable; and eventually it took three years and thrice the original expense to put up the chapel. The work was carried on, nevertheless, as fast as possible, and no detail has been neglected...