Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Visitors to the Museum saw such subjects as: "Elisofon and his two Contaxes"*; a telling snap of three gay and very German prisoners; beautifully crosslit heads and torsos, leaning out of a truck window; a three-picture sequence of helmeted U.S. artillerymen reacting to a close shellburst; a detail study of a Sened building's shell-spattered plaster wall...
...Germans were knocked out of the air both by night and by day, the 28-year-old flying officer declared. He described in vivid detail several dogfights in which his squadron participated...
...Hoover & Mr. Gibson do not attempt the presently impossible job of defining their world institution in concrete terms, but they do point out in detail why they believe the League of Nations failed. Presumably, the world institution would be something like the League of Nations-with Hoover & Gibson improvements...
...story is as simple in outline as it is complex in detail. Restricted in aviation after World War I by the Versailles Treaty, German companies, heavily subsidized, started South American lines. Slow, with poor safety records, high rates and poor equipment, and routes selected for military and political purposes, their efforts were seldom commercially successful. Only when they reached too near the Panama Canal was sluggish American opinion awakened...
These and many similar reports were at once the consequences and the weapons of an Allied war of nerves against the Axis. If the reports happened to be correct as well, the greatest secret of World War II was a secret only in detail. There were many signs that the Allies did plan to move into the Axis' island outposts in the Mediterranean-soon. There were signs that Allied plans also called for an invasion of the Continent. But there were few reliable signs that such an invasion would end the European...