Word: details
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When every detail of the apparatus had been carefully checked, Davis kissed his mother, father and sister goodby, waved to his friends, went up for his first test flight. At 6,000 ft. he stepped overside, fluttered a few seconds on his wings, pirouetting in the air currents. Then he pulled his ripcord...
...February 1861, with Lincoln, the President-elect, listening to Detective Pinkerton's warnings of the plot to assassinate him as he passes through Baltimore next day. The outlines of Author Pratt's story are familiar to every schoolboy, but he vitalizes it with many a contemporary detail. While the war was still only imminent, many a Northern businessman tried to collect his Southern debts. One of them got this reply: "I promise to pay, five minutes after demand, to any northern Abolitionist, the same coin in which we paid John Brown." When the war actually broke, Secretary...
Youngsters who knew the late Winsor Zenic McCay at all remember him for his elaborate editorial cartoons in Sunday Hearstpapers. "Cartoons" they were in subject only. In workmanship, detail, and fantasy they suggested to some critics the exciting drawings of Gustave Dore. On such a Brisbanal theme as the triumph of Knowledge over Prejudice, Artist McCay could produce a startling half-page conception of titanic struggle...
...Georgians as the coming of the bollweevil. Regularly he infuriates them by writing of terrorized Negroes, of poverty, ignorance, depravity, degeneracy among the poor whites. Latest indignity was his series of articles for the loudly liberal New York Post on the misery of starving sharecroppers near Augusta. In savage detail he described family after family-hungry, diseased, decayed, hopeless (TIME, March...
...only do patients assume the status of guinea pigs in this war of the gargles but the nurses are strained to the breaking point with intricate detail. Four times a day, they must see that over thirty throats come into contact with the proper fluid. Charts, vocal instruments, and pleas all come to the fore for apparently a mistake would be fatal...