Word: details
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Institute late yesterday afternoon. Dr. Compton will take office next July, when Dr. Stratton will become Chairman of the Executive Committee and of the Corporation, a newly created executive position in which he will share the responsibilities of administration, but will be relieved of much of the detail...
...eyes of true Catholics it was a minor detail that the persons unknown who perpetrated the Supreme Sacrilege were also thieves and stole from the Church of S. Marco Maggiore religious vessels, consisting of a jewel-studded chalice, monstrances and Pyxes valued at thousands of dollars, but all essentially things of little worth in spiritual comparison with the Host...
...thesis, optional if need be, that would be equal with the examination in determining the final grade. Surely slow, careful thought, extending over some period of time, should be considered as important as the hurried, fragmentary lottings of an examination. Only in a thesis can the mass of detail that is bound to accumulate be properly considered and used to best advantage. And, most important of all, it is only in a thesis that a student can do more than throw back the lectures and the reading. (Name withheld by request...
...Harvard's lampoonings, Record artists and scriveners had taken up stumbling brush and unsure pen to abuse Edward Harkness again. He had given Yale more than $10,000,000 for a House Plan similar to that of Harvard (TIME, Jan. 20). Still unaware of the Plan's detail, Yalemen only knew that last autumn's excavations on New Haven's Elm Street were for a group of buildings vaguely designated as "Unit...
More significant than any corporate earnings statement, more significant than any statistics yet prepared on 1929, was a figure-redundant report issued last week by the Bureau of Internal Revenue, covering in great detail the taxable income of U. S. citizens and corporations during the prosperous year...