Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senior Album is an annual headache to even the most industrious Committee, because there is a wealth of small detail and business problems that rear their ugly little heads every year, screaming for attention from a harrassed staff. In the past the Album Committee have been inexperienced, and consequently have had more difficulty in putting out the annual tome then a more experienced group would have...
...Grant Wood, famed Iowa artist, and carried out by University of Iowa NYA and WPA student workers. The three panels of the Iowa State College mural project will be II feet high and 41 feet long. Every effort is being made to have the murals historically correct in every detail...
...Zanuck's major works is not entirely accidental. Famed for his knack of translating headlines into cinema, Zanuck sees history as a collection of front-page stories. Making insurance seem glamorous might sound like a superhuman tour de force. Lloyd's of London, rich in the atmospheric detail of all good period pieces, warm with the honest adulation which English heroes alone seem capable of inspiring in Hollywood producers, is an insurance drummer's daydream. It makes the business as exciting as a bugle call, magnificently sombre as the roll of muffled drums. Good shots: Benjamin Franklin...
...lonely fur-trading posts. In the modern business sense they are a cross between financing companies and service organizations, having evolved in the U. S. from the oldtime commission merchants. James Talcott, Inc. will make market studies, find selling agents, provide storage and showroom facilities, handle the clerical detail of foreign or domestic shipments. It does not, as the commission merchant used to do, actually sell the manufacturer's goods. Like all factors, James Talcott is primarily concerned with cash and credit...
...during the early years of the eighteenth century. It was the avenue to public opinion and, most significant of all, public opinion, even with an unreformed House of Commons, became something that had to be carefully reckoned with. Professor Laprade's narrative of these years is admirably solid and detailed. Some, perhaps, will regret his almost too scrupulous adherence to detail. Generalizations on the significance of the mass of facts he presents are largely left to the reader. Readers accustomed to more indulgence will be disappointed. But the facts are a mine of interest which no student can wish...