Word: details
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fuller detail the Oxford speakers, Gordon Murray and K. R. F. Steele-Maitland, will base their case on the practical effects of the alliance in the Pacific, its stabilizing power on world exchange, and its soothing effect on war-rampant Europe...
...rate an unofficial poll of selected students at Radcliffe, Wellesley and Barnard, conducted recently by a certain advertising agency in connection with the promotion of a book, "The Sex Life of the Unmarried Adult," revealed the embarassing detail of comparative sex knowledge at Harvard and Columbia...
...present a number of small, dark brown crickets, known as Nemobius Fasciatus, are kept in the Laboratory, and all the various sounds which they can make are being studied in detail...
...decide the latest vogues in art were all finished with surrealism years ago. Surrealism may be described as painting the facts of dreams. Example: A little man with a head on which cabbages grow, carrying a huge spoon across a rocky mountain, all painted in meticulous mid-Victorian detail. Month ago a U.S. surrealist named Peter Blume won first prize ($1,500) at the Carnegie International Exhibition in Pittsburgh with his South of Scranton (TIME, Oct. 29). Last week a still abler Parisian surrealist named Salvador Dali arrived in Manhattan with a load of minutely painted canvases to bewilder...
Henri's narrative is succulent with descriptions of good things to eat and how to make them even better. He appends 30 pages of recipes which cannot be read aloud without frequent swallows. A master chef in the great French tradition, Henri thinks no culinary detail too homely to be treated artistically. Typical is his precept to neophyte waiters: "Carve a ham as if you were shaving the face of a friend." Tall, white-haired (he is 54), of stately port and bonhomous mien, Henri admits he is pretty well done, but he is in no hurry to be taken...