Word: details
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brit as an editor. He replied: 'Well, I think the most impressive thing was his ability to grasp instantly the largest ideas, even when they were wholly foreign to him. And his capacity for sticking to such ideas until they had been set down clearly with illuminating, readable detail. Nothing was too much trouble for him.' . . He worked, as everyone now knows, fnuch too hard, really. He wore himself haggard in those early days when the entire reference library would be lugged over Monday night to the printing shop on 12th Avenue and Brit would stay there, often...
...rend the night air. From the safe vantage point of upstairs windows someone did hazard that it must be Browne and Nichols and someone else threw out an empty cartoon of ice cream, in self defense one must surmise and thereby rose the tale. And that about the lurid detail of swinging red lanterns? We believe someone saw one. Having learned to rely on New England conservatism on almost all occasions we had trusted glowing headlines and expected worse...
...situation is unfair. It allows certain men to have a maximum of time to prepare for the general examinations, and forces others to devote a large part of their time and efforts to relatively unimportant courses. The concentrator is unnecessarily hampered by being complied to study the detailed matter of specific courses, when he is covering the same ground and learning the significant facts of the subject, though in less detail, for divisionals...
...stand to corroborate her husband's story of her ravishment and its effect upon him. For her it was a harrowing ordeal. Tears streamed down her cheeks. Her low drawling voice frequently broke off into choking sobs. From her Counsel Darrow drew forth many a detail of her husband's affection before turning her over to Prosecutor Kelley. Then the following occurred...
History 28 covers, with some detail, the history of modern Germany from its earliest beginnings in Brandenburg to the present day and minute. No phase of it is left untouched; Professor Fay amply discusses the military, political, economic, and social aspects of Germany's development, without making a mere chronological chart of names and dates; and his technical knowledge of military warfare enables him to give interesting, whether or not important, analyses of numerous battles and campaigns...