Word: details
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...settle wheat matters with the Canadians, finally back to the first room to take up currency with the British. These rounds were not flashy enterprises to make newspaper headlines; they were a diplomatic necessity on which the White House couch talks were based. Let the President hesitate on a detail of India's silver holdings or France's light artillery or Canada's tariff administration-and Expert Moley was close at his side to supply the exact information. Once or twice a day during the week President Roosevelt and his visiting statesmen would issue joint White House...
...expect to take further courses in the subject. Those who are taking Physics as a pre-Medical School requirement or for any similar reason should by all means choose the latter rather than the former course because it covers practically the same ground, but omits much of the dull detail, and is therefore considerably easier...
...pleasing personality and solid lecture method. Most of the time up to November Hours is spent in a study of the rather esoteric arts of Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Prehistoric Greece, but the body of the course is devoted to the Great Age of Greece; the student is given a detailed discussion of the buildings of the Athenian Acropolis and of the sculptural works of the six greatest Greek sculptors. Roman art is discussed cursorily just before the end of the half-year, and the course concludes with the monuments of the Age of Constantine. Because Professor Chase is primarily...
...examining the detail of the octoplasm, Dr. William McDougall, former Harvard professor of Psychology, found "all the appearances of the lung of some animal surgically manipulated to resemble roughly the shape of a human hand." He implied, the report states, that the ectoulasm was realy some substance held in Margery's mouth and thence extruded...
...very salutary effect upon the mental activity of the participants. But indeed, from the point of view of more technical educational theory, the method of the small class is known to be more successful than the method of individual instruction when matters of general background, rather than of specialized detail, are to be discussed; and the sophomore tutorial work has precisely this object in mind. (Name withheld by request...