Word: details
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Following the preliminary discussion, the committee considered in some detail the problems which were presented. Verhen Munroe Jr. '31, was named chairman, with T. N. Perkins Jr. '31, as secretary. The remaining members of the committee are P. M. Sweezy '31, W. B. Wood Jr., '32, R. N. Clark Jr., '22, and Robert Saltonstall...
...election in Maine last week gave the make-up of the 72nd Congress its first definite detail. Primaries in ten States sketched in more of its general outline. Developments...
...this plan was one detail to which great significance was attached. Of the new stock, 350,000 shares will be sold to bankers at not less than $30 (present market price of new: $22⅝). Quickly born were reports that this block will go to Herr Kreuger's group. In Sweden, the Match King denied it by saying he has taken no part in the present transaction. Also, Lee, Higginson & Co., his U. S. bankers, said they had heard no.thing of it. But the fact remained that Diamond does not need cash if it has enough to give...
...cannot be too small or too large without suffering distortion. The images recorded on light-sensitive film when the camera's shutter is snapped are formed by small deposits of metallic silver grains. For photographs taken through the microscope, these grains are often too gross, blur the minute detail. Greatly enlarged pictures are pockmarked. Cinema "stills," when projected, look spotted because of their size. Since the films in the ordinary moving picture are shown in rapid succession the grain patterns, which are different in every picture, blend, escape the eyes of the spectators...
...which Doris Keane starred for so long on the stage, an adaptation arranged in flashbacks, directed by Clarence Brown, with Lewis Stone as the middle-aged lover to whom Garbo returns after an interlude with a clergyman. For some reason the script makes her an Italian soprano. This detail, superficial, but salient in the plot, is the only thing in the picture that is silly. The simple expedient of altering the tag of the opera-singer to "Swedish Contralto" would have removed the skepticism which must afflict audiences through their realization that the bell-like head-tones heard issuing from...