Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Undeterred by immunity, a reporter for the Los Angeles Herald and Express last week talked his way past guards at the gate. Next day the Herald and Express printed four columns of detail about roulette (10? a chip) and bingo (10? a card) in the consulate's shoddy rooms. An attendant was quoted: ". . . We don't have craps or the other games. Just bingo and the wheels. We could have craps, of course, but that would make it too much like a gambling joint...
...Athenia; Britain's feat-of-the-week, the bombings of German naval bases, was announced as laconically as the results of target practice; in line with British belief that false hopes should not be raised, French troop movements on the Western Front were reported with so little detail they sounded downright dreamy. While Germany's Propaganda Ministry (see col. 2) exulted over the capture of each unpronounceable Polish town, and handed over photographs of Hitler at the front, Hitler comforting the wounded, Hitler sitting in an automobile, Hitler peering through a telescope, Lord Macmillan at first clamped down...
...design classes, boats must be identical not only in hull lines, sail area and rigging but even in the minutest detail of equipment. These classes are increasing in great numbers because: 1) one-design boats are cheaper; 2) their racing life is prolonged, since they cannot be outbuilt; 3) the boat is reduced to an instrument (like a tennis racket or golf club) for the display of individual skill...
...that Berlin was envisaging economic and military collaboration with Russia, and week later the London Daily Herald warned that "There is reason to think that its objects are political rather than commercial." On May 6, the New York Times'?, Berlin correspondent, Otto D. Tolischus, forecast the agreement in detail. Soon after that hints of what was coming began to appear in the German press. Said the Volkischer Beobachter on May 26: "National Socialism does not war against a State because that State has a different content from our own. .. . The anti-Comintern pact does not strike primarily...
TIME erred in geographical detail. Heidelberg Castle looks down on the Rhine valley from its hill above the little tributary Neckar...