Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rees blow the rest? Before his arrest he told "My Story" in a remarkable communique to the world, revealing in disillusioning detail an unsuspected peril in stealing a fortune: your new friends can be as larcenous as you, and as dangerous as the cops. Rees' 17-page letter was sent to San Francisco Chronicle Columnist Herb Caen, who mentioned it in an item this month and sent the manuscript...
...rules that the Essenes thought should have been used to build the temple and worship in it. It calls for a building of three concentric square courts, with twelve outer gates named for the twelve sons of Jacob. It also gives instructions for the surrounding area, down to the detail that the site for latrines must be 1,500 yards away "in order that it will not be visible from the [temple] city...
...less student interest and just as limited faculty resources. A final criticism of the report was that it glorified Harvard's history of African studies, maintaining that "African studies has had the advantage of satisfactory and congenial growth within established disciplines." Rosovsky makes a tremendous effort to detail all the research and curricular offerings of the school in African studies, but all his efforts fail to conceal several facts. No African languages were taught at Harvard at that time, despite all their reputable African anthropologists (did they use interpreters?). There were few courses dealing specifically with Africa; those few were...
...most beautiful aircraft we have." In 1935 the plane flew at a then record speed of 352 m.p.h. In its day, it was at least a decade ahead of the state of the art of aerodynamics with its smooth, flush-riveted body. With his characteristic attention to detail, Hughes designed the plane so that even the slots in the screwheads that attach the wooden wings to the aluminum fuselage were lined up in the direction of flight, presumably to reduce air drag...
...Vietnam war but "lost it during the Paris Peace Conference and with the help of gutless Congress." Most of the articles carry the reader along with violence or sensationalism. Features on weapons are geared to lure gun fanatics the way Motor Trend courts auto freaks. They go into exquisite detail. One review of a new pistol notes that "the front strap is serrated, a big help when the gun hand is wet sweaty or bloody." What? Me obsessed with destruction...