Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...labor's lesser leaders had made their points before the House & Senate labor committees. Their testimony added up to a single doctrine: present laws should not be changed in any important detail. But at least three unions did little last week to encourage Congress to leave things as they...
...detail had been spared to make their trip a success, no chance overlooked to display Britain's manufacturing prowess. In Portsmouth harbor, Britain's vastest, newest battleship, the 42,500-ton Vanguard, was laden with three vanloads of baggage, a refrigerator freight car full of choice game. Five Vickers Viking planes equipped with the latest safety gadgets, four dozen or so sleek, new Daimler, Austin and Humber motorcars, a 14-coach, ivory-and-gold train, complete with telephones, offices, kitchens, salons and armor-plate windows had been shipped ahead. The Vanguard herself was tricked out with curtains, carpets...
...over 3,000 years, this yarn has been good enough for millions of people.* But in the current issue of American Scientist, Dr. Arthur F. Taggart belittles it to pieces. The Golden Fleece, Dr. Taggart explains, was probably nothing but a detail of Heroic Age mining technique. The early Greeks lined their gold-washing sluices with sheepskins. The gold dust stuck to the natural grease in the wool. The same principle (the selective attraction of oily substances for certain mineral particles) is widely used today in the flotation process of concentrating metallic ores. Jason, then, according to Dr. Taggart...
...same minority, however, which has always refused to pick out its textbooks for the next term's classes until the day before registration, has continued to do so. Despite all the publicity, picturing in graphic detail the present difficulty in obtaining books, a few wilful men continue to act as if 1947 were 1938. The pipeline between publisher and student is slowly filling but, it still does not allow for complacency from those who decide what their student's reading will be for the following term. There just aren't enough books to go around in the unprecedented rush...
...houses to his clients. But he takes it on himself to decide what is best for them, carefully explains to those who come with prepared floor plans that he is "more interested in the plan of your life." He requires all adults in a client's family to detail their actions for a week-their sleeping habits, the friends they see, etc. As a result, Neutra-designed houses are likely to be more livable than they look...