Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week the Soviet ship of state trimmed sheets and shifted helm, did its best to make the suggestions of Skipper Josef Stalin law. Editors in foreign countries commenting on the speed with which any hints from Steel Man Stalin are acted on, remembered last week that practically every detail of what is already known as Stalin's New Policy (restoration of unequal wages, making peace with bourgeois technicians, etc., etc.) has long been advocated by Moscow editors...
Though approved by the Franklin superintendent of schools, a principal and two instructors, the selection of the history was postponed. Said Ambrose Sheasley, a school director: "The book gives a distorted opinion of pioneer living conditions. Why go into all that detail about drinking and then have the young mind find justification for conditions as they are today...
...both of which she indulges her fondness for elaborate aviaries and collecting fountain pens. She-Wolf, is her first cinema; in it her loyal secretary Lillian Harmer plays the part of Hetty Green's servant. Der Grosse Tenor (UFA). Possibly his panoramic countenance and the slow elaboration of detail to which Cinemactor Emil Jannings is addicted have helped to convince critics that his characterizations are more searching than they really are. Nonetheless, he often contrives to take a banal situation-in this case that of an opera singer who loses his voice-and make apparent the underlying values which...
...fairly and squarely, without personal bias, as it were, is inclined to believe their differences were caused by incompatible vocations. For, whereas, the able Mr. Huey guesses at the outcome of sportive events and never goes to see them actually performed, this good columnist never attempts to outline in detail exactly what will take place, but rather hints at the subject matter and always attends. And furthermore he never permits himself any general observations on athletic combats...
...days the Soviet Foreign Office was full of peasants and proletarians, learning to be diplomats. Tchitcherin had to do almost everything himself, and correct what others did. Under the terrible pressure of conducting single-handed the foreign affairs of Europe's largest nation. Tchitcherin burned himself out with detail, reached the point where he sharpened his own pencils...