Word: details
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Berlin, last fortnight, Professor Emanuel Goldberg, German photographic chemist, announced that he had found a grainless emulsion for films which makes it possible to take a photograph the size of a pinpoint (.01 sq. millimeter) and greatly enlarge it with perfect reproduction of detail...
...there will be on view 100 carpets, more than 1,000 textiles, 1,500 paintings & drawings, hundreds of the finest extant Persian book covers, more than 1,000 pieces of faïence, a priceless collection of illuminated manuscripts, bronzes from Achaemenian and Sassanian times, sculpture, architectural and ornamental detail, friezes, ceramics, enamel, glassware, brocades, velvets, tapestries, gold and silver work, a unique collection of Saljuk silverware, gold and silver inlay, lacquer work. Notable will be a group of remarkably preserved bronze Achaemenian objects of great sculptural beauty and vigor recently unearthed in Luristan Province by Dr. Friedrich Sarre, famed...
...Wiley's most brilliant counterattack against the manufacturers was the formation of his "Poison Squad," twelve young men from his staff who at his command ate only adulterated foods. Their sufferings he reported with dramatic detail. The "Poison Squad" won him general public support. As a result unscrupulous manufacturers must be skillfully stealthy to put into their products boric acid, borax, salicylic acid, salicylates, sulphurous acid, sulphites, benzoic acid, benzoates (except traces), formaldehyde, copper sulphate, saltpeter...
...Pole step by step, laying out emergency bases, foreseeing, taking precautions. Byrd might have taken a chance and made a dash for the Pole by plane the day he got to Little America, but explorers need not be gamblers; Byrd caught the South Pole in a net of arithmetical detail. When the base-ship went back to warmer water, the camp on the ice-desert became a little city. You see the city live its life-dealing with whales, ice deserts, seals, penguins, wireless communications. The trip over the Pole itself is exciting in spite of a dreary monolog...
...picture opens with a portrayal of the founding of the earliest settlements, shows the clearing of the land, the household life of the time, and contrasts this with the life of the Indians. Each century is taken up in detail, and from many points of view. The religious difficulties, the alarms of witchcraft, the role played by the sea in the life of New England, the struggle with the soil dominate the reels on the seventeenth century...