Word: details
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Detroit last week assembled more than 200 people united by a common passion-the construction and operation of model railroads with such elaborate attention to detail and conformity to scale that they feel entitled to resent the word "toys." This was the third annual convention of the National Model Railroad Association, and its members discussed such things as the best ways of ballasting track and handling steam boilers with as much warmth as the operating vice president of the Southern would discuss parallel maintenance problems with the superintendent of his Atlanta division...
What makes Ivan Sanderson's account of his amiable expedition heart-warming is the fact that his sympathy toward animals is as rich as his eye for observed detail is acute and his prose style is limpid. Sample: ''Above me rose the immensity of the primeval forest, filtering the golden sunlight, as it has done since the dawn of terrestrial life. In the bowels of this woody giant scampered the trembling feet of little rats, furry squirrels, countless birds, and scaly lizards...
Your recent article [TIME, July 12] about digging worms in Maine omits one interesting detail. On the road running between Belfast and Waterville and between Belfast and Augusta, I have more than once seen signs reading "Cornfed night crawlers." The first time I saw this sign, I was puzzled and stopped to ask a farmer what it meant. "Worms, and fat ones," he explained with scorn for my ignorance...
...taught her the manual of arms. She also learned not to go out in the sun without a hat, not to refer to the Colonel, her grandfather (C. Aubrey Smith), by his regimental nickname: Old Boots. One evening the Afghans attacked the arsenal to distract attention from a detail which got Khoda Khan out of the lockup. In the expedition sent to bring him back, Sergeant MacDuff, Priscilla's particular friend, who had named her Wee Willie Winkie. came by his death wound. Wee Willie Winkie thought she would call on Khoda Khan and tell him that Old Boots...
...were too long and gummed up with unnecessary legal verbiage, Mr. Neff cited a utility company's prospectus for an issue of first-mortgage bonds. Of most of its 2.100 words he observed that "the instructions [SEC's] not only permit but invite the omission of such detail." offered in comparison a model prospectus of his own covering the same ground in 250 words. C. "Silly," said Western Union Telegraph Co.'s dour old Vice President John Calvin Willever last week of newspaper reports that Western Union and Postal Telegraph were about to be prosecuted for violation...