Word: details
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...personality clearly emerges from the welter of detail about people and books and events. Here is Amy Lowell joining the guests at her table after the roast has been removed and, despite having two plates of soup, catching up with them before the meal is over. Here is Amy Lowell, self-described, at an Advocate smoker, "smuggled into an upper chamber, and kept quiet with cigars while they heckled me in true undergraduate fashion. I think I held my own; I tried to." We may be sure that she did. Here is the sincerity, the generosity, the fearlessness, the humor...
...employment as a spy and later took him to "a certain baron" whose name the prisoner wrote on a piece of paper and passed to the judge. This baron was a member of the Embassy staff of the foreign power in London, and McMahon offered to describe in detail the room in which they met. Upshot was an offer to McMahon, so he said, of $750 to shoot King Edward. Snapped horrified Attorney General Sir Donald Bradley Somervell: "I suggest the story of this plot is the product of your imagination...
...general lineup for the work this year was discussed in detail during a three-hour evening meeting. A plan for lectures by criminal and police heads was announced by Knowleton of the Social Service Committee; he also said that settlement house work would continue as usual. Bolton discussed in detail the work which he plans to have the Freshman committee do this year. This will include Red Cross driving, work which he plans to have the Freshman committee do this year. This will include Red Cross driving, work in social service in the settlement houses, and personnel work among Freshmen...
Last week busy Nobelist Bergius bustled from Pittsburgh to Cambridge, Mass, to address the Harvard Tercentenary Conference on Arts & Sciences which got under way last fortnight (TIME, Sept. 14), continucd last week. At Cambridge, without going into much detail as to method, the German declared that he is getting a digestible sugar, equal in food value to barley, from sawdust, which is mostly a waste product or burned as an inferior fuel in lumber mills. Of the sawdust 60% to 65% becomes sugar, 5% acetic acid, 30% lignin which again can be used to make charcoal or wallboard. The sugar...
European family chronicles that detail the rise & fall of a great fortune usually follow a pattern that permits little lively narrative, few vivid characterizations...