Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...primaries. No sooner had Mr. Guffey's followers started congratulating not Thomas Kennedy but an obscure, conservative Pittsburgh law yer named Charles Alvin Jones on his tentative nomination than the excitement be gan. No reporters were present and most of them were unable to describe the scene in detail, but Thomas P. O'Neil of Phila delphia's rabid (pro-Roosevelt & proLabor) Record, wrote a graphic, if second hand account...
...disclosed that permission had been given to distribute pamphlets on University grounds, and added that with Alan R. Sweezy '29, instructor in Economics and John B. Rackliffe, instructor in English, he was preparing a leaflet explaining the posters in detail and pointing out chief features...
...admits that Magellan was a secretive, unpersonable dictator. But Magellan's voyage he calls "the most glorious Odyssey in the history of mankind." Magellan he defends as a sincere Christian whose ruthlessness was only an unavoidable means toward a great end. His generally known facts take in less detail than most biographers'. As in Author Zweig's other defenses of historical figures he considers maligned (Marie Antoinette, Mary, Queen oj Scotland and the Isles), his method is that of the biographical essay; his persuasiveness is that of the eloquent defense attorney. Thus, where the facts...
...next morning a detail of young soldiers under a Lieutenant Huisse, assisted by several municipal chemists and police, started carrying the packing cases to the waiting trucks. One clumsy soldier let a case fall. With crash after crash that broke windows a mile away, the cases exploded. The trucks were left two tangles of twisted steel in a puddle of burning oil and blood. Fourteen men were killed instantly. Parts of the bodies were blown 200 feet away. Only four of the 14 could be identified. Minister of the Interior Albert Sarraut promised a formal state funeral for the remains...
Harmony, Professor Burgess then examined in detail the relationships of married couples, reported these signs of a successful marriage...