Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Then he compared other characteristics of a city with its GG to determine whether they were good symptoms or bad. Last week, having confirmed his test's reliability by trying it out on 193 more cities, Professor Thorndike was able to describe the "good town" in great detail...
...this the old soldier recounted, in pompous language but frank detail, in memoirs which he wrote for his kinsmen only. He was aware that he had led a remarkable life, believed that he had lived in a remarkable age. After his right hand was crippled at Ball's Bluff, he learned to write with his left. But his left arm was paralyzed at Antietam, so when he sat down to tell the story of his life he shifted back to the crippled right...
...assets. Today as General Foods chairman, modestly ensconced in a white colonial office on the 17th floor of the Postum Building in Manhattan, a portrait of his father over the fireplace, a bust of Lincoln, his favorite character, above his silvering head, Colby Chester shares the corporate detail with President Clarence Francis, devoting more & more of his time to semi-public service. Slight, quiet, earnest, he is a crack tennis player and the best golfer in the company. For some wholly mysterious reason his friends have always called him "Clare...
...compose late at night. He proudly remembers that in his younger days he often worked three nights and two days at a stretch. Seldom does he use the piano when composing. He conceives and elaborates his ideas in his mind and puts pen to paper only when every detail of the score has been thought out. Once his notes are down on paper, he seldom makes alterations, and has often sent scores to publishers without bothering to try them out on any instrument...
This is a loan exhibition, made up of old Persian miniatures, pottery, and sculptures. The painting in the miniature pictures is characterized by exquisite detail work and color...