Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...distressingly vivacious widow, Son to marry a poor but virtuous hello-girl, and Daughter to fall into the clutches of nicotine, complexion-clay and her mother's manager. But everything came out happily at last. The cast is pretty adequate, though not exciting-the direction and detail good...
...Department of Justice has started its examination of the sugar brokers. A demand has been made upon every member of the New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange to turn over to the United States Attorney's office complete and detailed accounts of all sales and purchases of sugar from Jan. 1 to April 1. " Please do not confine yourself to information regarding money balances," says the Department's letter to the brokers, " but state in detail each customer's account, the number of lots, the month of future delivery, and prices. The names and addresses of these...
...Nikolai Lenin, Premier: Son of a noble, i.e., small hereditary landowner. Irreproachable morals. Strong character supplemented by feminine influence, particularly by his secretary, Fotiva, tall, dark, efficient woman of forty. He appears as the generous autocrat of Moscow. Amazing aptitude for detail. Behind a cold and calculating political mask, he hides a kind and gentle disposition. Every Soviet leader has "lost his head" at least once, except Lenin. Strives to westernize Russia...
...airplane and a hook of corresponding dimensions was hung from the passenger gondola of an airship. The airplane pilot regulated his speed till it was no greater than that of the dirigible and was picked up and carried along without the slightest difficulty. The apparatus will be modified in detail only, and will permit both the picking up and taking off of airplanes...
...mere detail of giving a letter to non-athletes is of minor importance. But the clamoring for "recognition" indicates that too many institutions are tainted by that smallness of soul which regards outward display more than inward satisfaction. The colleges should be the first to realize that a "cum laude" without power is irony. Their ideal should be the spirit of true craftsmanship, the desire to do something, not for a specious reward, but for the sake of doing...