Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Goode described in detail the problem of recruiting a new force following the police strike in 1919, which confronted the Boston Police Department at that time...
...corruption, of damaging testimony, of venal politics. Possibly there is a righteous feeling among the publishers that this governmental scandal should have the widest publicity to impress its iniquity upon the public more emphatically. But for the great majority, who are merely sickened by the reappearance of the "sordid detail" after another, who have no axe to grind, and who are well aware that this is not the first instance of corruption in American politics, the "Teapot Dome" has long since lost its news value...
Edward Douglas Snyder '11: The Celtic Revival in English Literature 1760-1800. Dr. Snyder's study traces in detail this revival movement among the English men of letters...
Professor Emerton says, "However much one might differ from this or that detail of his opinion, one always felt the purity and loftiness of his ideal, the firmness of his standards, the depth and sincerity of his sympathy...
...novel, more than once or twice during its 200-odd pages comes so close to the ridiculous as to border on the sublime. After all, Carley is a paranoic?whether or not he is an intellectual Christ. But for all that, it is an original, vivid novel. In detail, its realism fails occasionally? especially in dialogue?but the total effect of its realism is good. It is not to be recommended to the Victorian-minded. Its subject, honestly treated, precludes that...