Word: details
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wage bargains, they recoil in the same sort of terror before the unknown felt by liberal economists when they contemplate a broad program of industrial and agricultural regulation. Whether the alternative their attitude implies is any more desirable or even possible, they seldom stop to consider in any detail...
...Items which made up "other securities," "loans and discounts" and "real estate" in the bank's last statement were explained in detail...
...conceals his real opinion of his colleagues. Kitchener he kindly calls "one of the unsolved mysteries of the war." After Neuve Chapelle, he says, Kitchener groaned not over the casualties but the wasted shells. Of Balfour he says: "[The Admiralty] was an office that called for unceasing attention to detail. It meant long hours, early and late. Mr. Balfour was obviously unsuitable for such a post...
...well as an authority on modern European history and 19th century diplomacy. His lectures are artfully planned and carefully written down word by word. The opening sentence of each lecture usually connects the subject of the day with the roots of the problem presented in the welter of detail in previous lectures. As the chapel bell resounds at one o'clock, Professor Langer most certainly is droning out a dynamic conclusion, stating the essence of the lecture and raising the question for the next discussion. Revolutions and diplomacy are for the first time realities, instead of phantom monsters...
...Colmery Gibson '37 has been chosen by a committee of upperclassmen composed of former Red Book chairmen, to be editor in chief of this year's publication. The Red Book, which sets forth in detail the accomplishments of the Freshman class, and the Senior Class Album, which shows its development, are the only undergraduate records which contain the history of the class...