Word: details
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With details in the production one can quarrel endlessly. It is easy to be shocked at the idea of Harvard as an intellectual Sargasso Sea in some years to come; one may point out that Dearborn, Michigan, hardly has the ingredients of a scientific oasis for the decade of mental famine; it seems a little chauvinistic of Mr. Wells to plunge the Irish deeper than any other nation into the abyss of economic collapse; he takes a malicious joy in attributing the ruin of New York to its jerry-built skyscrapers. Yet these are but minor points--some well taken...
...inclined to regret that Mr. Agar felt compelled to report with great detail on the early lives of his subjects and hence to compress his commentary into a meagre allotment of pages. But no reader can escape the fact that the author does keen justice to his characters. "Jemmy" Madison, for example, "the withered little apple-John," was "small, quiet, precise... In print he had authority and effectiveness; but he had neither of these qualities as chief executive of the nation;" William Howard Taft was a "genial, unambitious man who never got over the surprise at finding himself president;" Wilson...
Transport operators must report in detail every forced landing, whether or not it results in damage or injury...
...cities as brokers fought for options on office space. Finally President Whitney picked Newark's Centre Market for the exchange proper and Jersey City's Pennsylvania Terminal- equidistant between the old floor and the new- for Stock Clearing Corp., a subsidiary which handles much of the mechanical detail.- Telephone men working 24 hours a day gouged up Newark's Commerce Street to lay a 3,600-wire cable. Carpenters and electricians rushed preparations for the opening Oct. 2. A hitch developed when Centre Market's present tenants, in default of $300,000 rent, obtained an injunction...
Plans for Mr. Conant's inauguration, if he is to have one, will probably be announced before the end of next week. The inauguration of a Harvard president is a colorful ceremony governed by tradition in every detail except what the president himself chooses to say. There has been but one in the last 64 years...