Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Monitor issued a 16-page supplement devoted almost entirely to that great new Cunard White Star liner, the Queen Mary, on the eve of her maiden voyage to the U. S. (May 27). Surrounded in the supplement by many an advertisement were pictures and stories describing the ship in detail. Notably abbreviated, however, was the Monitor's report on the Queen Mary's religious facilities: ''The drawing room, on the promenade deck, will be the Queen Mary's church on Sunday...
...chief responsibilities of the Auditor is the Annual Treasurer's Report, bound copies of which occupy three shelves in his office. An interesting statistical detail pointed out by Taylor is the almost exact mathematical proportion that has been maintained between the student's tuition and professor's salaries...
...Mahatma last week invited to his retreat at Wardha a 9-year-old Hindu girl named Kumari Shanti Devi, who, it is claimed, is India's first modern case of demonstrable reincarnation. In Delhi this child has aroused the interest of psychiatrists, physicians, scholars and ecclesiastics. In full detail she has described her last life on earth, which ended about a decade ago. Taken to Muttra, where her previous existence was supposedly passed, Shanti Devi identified her onetime husband and their son, now 10. In a crowded street she spied her first father and mother, raced to embrace them...
FLOWERS FOR THE JUDGE-Margery Allingham - Double day, Doran ($2). Author Allingham's characters are conventional murder-story puppets but by skillful pace, dialog, detail, she makes a commonplace theme into a specious and entertaining yarn...
While following in general the plan of past years, this year's Red Book has made several innovations in detail. First to attract the reader's eye will be end leaves drawn by Art Chairman Irving Michelman, featuring such fixtures of Freshman life as Miss Hempel, Miss Murray, and Max Keezer...