Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into detail in this way it is because this young woman who has been living at the Lido the entire summer quietly and respectably with her mother has been very much upset by the notoriety arising from the incident. REBEKAH W. ELLIOT Venice, Italy...
...election. Hampton students will cast their ballots not only for President and Vice President but also for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and many another nonelective official. Then on March 4 the elected Hamptonians- students and faculty members-will go through the curious motions, minute by minute and detail by detail, of the real inaugural taking place in Washington. In Hampton's inaugural there may be a Franklin Delano Roosevelt. There is sure to be a Hampton Hoover, either as retiring president or president-elect. To administer the oath there will be a Hampton Chief Justice Hughes, "bearing...
Noteworthy is the tuna fishing detail: the lookout man, the leaping school of tuna in the distance, the bait-thrower, the lashing together of double lines with two poles for the big tuna, the wild scenes with three fish continuously in the air, the sharks' sinister grey shadows beneath the surface. The tuna are the composite hero throughout, the sharks the composite villain. The sharks "settle everything," tumble drowning fishermen, end love triangles, horrify audiences. Robinson writhes and mouths his lines in an effective, fat facsimile of Lionel Barrymore's acting. Zita Johann, beauteous Austrian-born importation from Manhattan...
...with a resulting opinion of almost diametrically opposite character, and who realizes that he is not entirely alone in his views. You have well described it as "a maze of dates, names and bibliography," to which is added "the stiff and remarkably comprehensive map requirements." The very complexity of detail considered robs the study and survey of much of its possible value. Interpretation of History is barely mentioned in the first half, only faintly considered in a few of the second term lectures, notably those of Professor Gay on the industrial Revolution, and actually discussed only in the final lecture...
This report aroused varied emotions in the breasts of those responsible for the conduct of college athletics. There were some quick denials, but the facts in detail were always made available, and in the end the accuracy of the report was generally admitted. Some colleges proceeded to 'clean up', but in general this process, even when the intentions were of the best, has not been easy...