Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tokyo said that 40 warships in all had been sunk, that 22 had been damaged. This was a far cry from the U.S. claim that 129 had been sunk, and a curious reversal of the usual ratio between sunk and damaged naval vessels. But the Japanese, significantly, did not detail their losses in cruisers, the category in which their losses have hurt the most...
Agitation for the plan originated in fear by the Student Council that the local market would be flooded by the furniture of draftees, and that students would suffer accordingly. It was proposed that either the College handle the problem or detail one business concern to store the superflous furniture...
...army means regimentation, from the first crack of dawn till the last detail of the day is done. We get a sweet picture of how the babes will go for that. The average girl will probably be so bored after her first few weeks in the forces that upon her first leave she will cloister herself in some nearby forest and cry a half dozen GI hankies into a complete state of saturation...
Among the department's 1,500 reference maps, charts and photographs are some from the U.S. Hydrographic Office that show Truk and Guadalcanal in such detail that coral reefs and buildings as small as Chapin's office are visible-and a set of very detailed Admiralty charts of the French, Spanish and Italian coasts that Chapin dug up in anticipation of an Allied invasion practically anywhere. This week's TIME map of Tunisia was based on the French automobile blue book and the very hard-to-come-by Atlas des Colonies Francaises...
Questions. This book, while it testifies to the optimism inherent in American civilization, gives little evidence of it in detail. The Beards might have theorized less about civilization and devoted more attention to asking themselves what has changed in U.S. thought from the calm confidence of John Adams to the flounderings of contemporary citizens...