Word: details
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...alluring French woman but a man whose blood is a mix ture of French and Belgian scooped the story of the Dictator's fall for his U. S. employers, the United Press. They put the news on their wires six hours ahead of competitors, kept on firing out detail after detail through an anxious day, while other news services periodically reported the official denials of the Spanish censor...
...more than $100,000 worth of U. S. $100 Federal Reserve notes, dated 1914 and picturing Benjamin Franklin (TIME, Feb. 3). (Polish banks last week became so alarmed that they refused to accept any U. S. banknotes' in denominations of $100 or larger.) With a wealth of circumstantial detail M. Sadathieraschvili of Georgia accused another Georgian, the Dictator of Soviet Russia, commonly called Josef Stalin, but named by his parents Josef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili...
...placing such a definite barrier between the tutors and students is distinctly alien to the success of the Plan. The objections to the High Table are just as applicable whether it is English or American. Everyone is well-enough satisfied at the first solution of this relatively unimportant detail. The House Plan means a break with many of Harvard's more important traditions; a plea for the High Table as such has very little basis...
...trace the subsequent careers of criminals after their incarceration. The statement had been made and generally accepted that when criminals had served their terms and were let loose, approximately 80 per cent of them went the straight and narrow path thenceforth. But Glueck went into the matter in detail. He looked into every corner of the lives of 500 criminals at four stages in their careers, compiling statistics at every turn. Ninety per cent of these men were kept in touch with while located in every part of the United States. In treating the matter, Glueck first compiled elaborate statistics...
...next president. He has been serving as vice president. Tall, iron-grey-haired, Mr. Dailey has served ably on many a tennis committee. He has a genial yet judicious fashion of speech, and just the mind for a committeeman, respectful of the subject in hand, scrupulous in detail. His office is in the Equitable Building, Manhattan. He has a son who plays good tennis...