Word: details
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...illustrating the margins of books. The entire collection, most of which is reproductions of the work of the monks of the medieval times is interesting as well as beautiful, for the sketches and drawings in some of the manuscripts show the old medieval attempts to insert the greatest of detail into their works...
...WITH THEM-Peadar O'Donnell-Putnam ($2.50). Simple, powerful narrative of Irish islanders, in poignant detail of workaday living, and occasional drama of the wild surrounding...
...through these stages has a number of unhappy results. The pastures that promised unchecked grazing are reached only by wriggling through too many fences. Professors who complain that they can not cover their subjects adequately in the shortened semester are further limited by necessary but irrelevant attention to mechanical detail. The November hours belie their name with a premature October appearance that is particularly unwelcome to Seniors who have taken divisional a week or two before. And the student who is taking more than one of these courses must forego any hope of systematic digestion, to move in jumps...
...Significance. Though differing in detail from The Book of Daniel Drew and Warshow's Jay Gould, Jubilee Jim completes the fascinating picture of those two crooked wizards in relation to their lesser but indispensable associate. Told in the fictitious third person of Jim's confidant and publicity man, it records the entire gamut of his knaveries, but gives him where possible the benefit of the doubt. After all, Fisk died with a paltry million, while Gould left seventy millions, and Vanderbilt a hundred. If such figures are as nothing today, the balance is struck by bygone melodramatics...
There have been drastic changes in the Intercollegiate wrestling rules, since last season, which will materially affect styles of wrestling. The changes will be explained in detail at today's meeting...