Word: details
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What the Pamphlet Told. In her pamphlet Mrs. Dennett advised youths "to understand the wonderful sex organs, that are different in men and women, what each part is for and how it works." She described the male and female genital apparatus in main detail, with illustrations by Dr. Robert Latou Dickinson, gynecologist and eugenist. She told of ovulation. She described insemination. She wrote: "Don't let any one drag you into nasty talk or thought about sex. It is not a nasty subject." She mentioned the two terrible sexual diseases. She concluded with: "The physical side of love...
...play which depicts motion picture life in Hollywood. The scene of the third act is the Montmartre Cafe in Hollywood. Plans and pictures of the interior of this cafe have been obtained and are in the hands of the producers who hope to carry them out in detail. Models and floor plans of the set of the first act have been completed by T. B. Quigley '29 and J. W. Bethel...
...Senate he has become "a lion for efficiency, a tiger for economy, a wolf for detail." No branch of the Government was too obscure for him to explore. The U. S. Bureau of Efficiency is his legislative child. But in the confusion of Senate debate, Senator Smoot gives no hint of his great influence. His voice is thin and quarrelsome. Senatorial badgers easily fluster him. He tries to smother them under a blanket of indisputable statistics, only to scold them for their mockery of his "facts...
...Great American Band Wagon does not pretend to write a biography of Henry Ford. He illustrates instead the period of American development that is best illuminated by the highlights of Ford's career. The result is a logical piece of writing, efficient in its grasp of factual detail, but devoid of any great inspiration. Perhaps the subject matter is too familiar; perhaps the perspective too short. Unheralded by newspaper publicity, the first of the highlights were the successive experiments in mechanics that culminated in the historic Lizzy, Model T. For five years Model T was turned...
...very much narrower subject within the department. By adapting similar regulations, the committee in charge of Sociology and Social Ethics insure that those studying the complex mosaic of human society will not sacrifice proper balance of background to the desire for spotlight definition of isolated detail...