Word: details
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...biography is filled with descriptions of Civil War battles. It is meticulous in detail about tactical coups and blunders. In one sense it is a case book for soldiers of the future. And all the leaders of the Confederacy appear somewhere in its pages, as human beings rather than military automatons. Assuredly rich in anecdote about the South of 1861-65, there is little treatment of Sturat's earlier youth about Richmond and the front-line, the book has many advantages. It is well-written, personal, and never boring...
...detail, the Jones muffler is not entirely new in principle. Among many other efforts, one like hers was created by one William Deal and exhibited in the 1929 Aeronautical Exposition of the American Legion in Manhattan by Curran Machine Works of Long Island City. Other methods under experiment are:1) to reduce the speed of the exhaust gases by rapid cooling and 2) employment of sound-absorbing material in the muffler -with the corresponding danger of the material catching fire...
...give the Authors examinations, in the Sophomore or Junior year is the logical return to an original policy. It removes the necessity of small detail questions injected because men took courses in the material examined, it provides a ground work when there is still time for future building. In short it means putting theory into practice...
Seated or standing on a level with the rest the "high tablers" accordingly would be obscured. The four inch dais merely compensates an equivocal detail, with a reasonable allowance for future growth...
...splendid box-office title. To criticize the plot because it is familiar would be absurd, for its familiarity is its greatest strength. To be effective as drama the love-rivalry between an executive's secretary and his wife should have been worked out with far more specific, individual detail. But the producers developed it stupidly, could not keep improbability out of a situation and background so thoroughly within the experience of cinema audiences that the slightest divergence from reality is instantly detected. A smart cast, including Lewis Stone and Dorothy Mackaill, makes it a fair program film. Silliest shot: secretaries...