Word: details
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After a few years, both ended up in the gentlemen's art gallery of Churchill's Saloon on Woodward Avenue. Changes of Time outlasted Churchill's as a cherished possession of Distiller Marvin Preston. It got its poignancy from the fact that it displayed, in minute detail, almost every form of U. S. currency from 1776 to 1886. Old Mr. Preston would never let it go, even when the late John F. Dodge, one of the original Dodge Brothers, offered him $26,000 for it. The story is that Mr. Dodge used to "stand for hours" looking...
Archaeologists can look forward to piecing together in detail in the future the million or so years of human prehistory following man's evolution from the ape, Donald Scott, director of the Peabody Museum, said yesterday in his annual report...
...ingenuity is "the Harvard University Series." Although designed to be of general educational interest, the program calls for professors from each of the graduate schools to discuss their work. And more and more these Harvard-trained Harvard professors have tended to stray from the main and to describe in detail how we do things here at Harvard. Despite its worthy goal, the Series is rapidly entering the twilight of advertising and is setting a dangerous precedent...
Fortnight ago three-year-old Donald Richardson left Kansas City General Hospital after being cured of Purpura hemorrhagica (capillary bleeding) by injections of cottonmouth venom. The Kansas City Journal-Post related in newsworthy detail how the poison thickened the blood and stopped seepage through the ruptured vessels. The Star merely stated that Donald had been cured by injections of "venom," left it up to readers to guess whether the venom came from Cleopatra's asp or a chemist's test tube...
...state in particular. ("The position of America is one of collaboration, not rebuke," said General Benavides.) They were willing to accept the principle of Argentina's strictures against disruptive foreign political movements-but those who still clung to the principle of civil liberties could not accept it in detail. The South and Central American States were ready to trade their coffee, rubber, ores for U. S. money and machinery-but the U. S. could not take any of their cotton or much of their beef. That left the unrebuked dictatorships like Germany to continue bartering in South and Central...