Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...final edition, the Examiner appeared with a similar picture, not credited to any photographer or paper, but simply billed as a view of the victim "taken before he was operated upon." The Examiner's, picture of Fitts was exactly like the Times's in every detail, even to the telltale vanished cigaret. A check on the fact that Fitts actually was holding a cigaret as he went to the operating room came from a picture in the Illustrated Daily News, which its man had snapped from another angle at the same moment the Times man got his shot...
...Augustin M. Prentiss, Ph. D., of the U. S. Army's Chemical Warfare Service published a 739-page treatise entitled Chemicals in War* which was hailed by colleagues as the most comprehensive work on the subject in English. † In this book Lieut.-Col. Prentiss describes in minute detail the tactics and accessory equipment of chemical warfare, the organization of chemical troops, the chemicals used in the World War, their composition, manufacture, military value, physiological effects and probable role in future war. A chapter on the protection of civil populations is contributed by Major George J. B. Fisher...
...American history is an educational contribution of great importance. Nor does it signify only as a means of broadening the intellectual base at Harvard; it has dynamic possibilities as far as later study and thought are concerned. Its reception will depend largely upon the first launching-the attention to detail, the attractiveness of the reward, its inherent usefulness, above all, perhaps, the preservation of some measure of informality in its organization, for it runs afoul the worst enemies of any non-compulsory undertaking the twin devils of apathy and lethargy. The Committee's report and the reaction...
...place for the man who, despite his lack of other assets, wants to indulge his love of figuring, of dealing with symbols rather than with goods or services. Finance in terms of accounting, statistics, and credit work is for the man with infinite patience, who is meticulous, who likes detail, who is not upset by routine, and who does his best work by himself. It is the keystone of all business, and as an all-embracing function in the world of commerce and industry, it provides a point of vantage from which to study all businesses and a background that...
...with liberal tendencies, was found dead in the hunting lodge at Mayerling on Jan. 30, 1889. With him, also dead, lay the Baroness Mary Vetsera. He was 31, she 18. The scandal shook the Austro-Hungarian Empire to its foundations. And although Emperor Franz Joseph hushed up every detail of the tragedy so thoroughly that the motivation for the deaths remains mysterious to this day, the Mayerling affair has been pawed at by sensation mongers for two generations. In The Masque of Kings the dead prince and his mistress have for the first time fallen into literary hands capable...