Word: details
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Night fighting over Britain, once a dark, lonely search for enemies, is now helped by constant radio instructions from ground control rooms where new radio detectors trace in detail the movements of both R.A.F. and enemy planes on sky charts. Other new devices prevent R.A.F. planes from being betrayed in the dark by exhaust flames or red-hot, glowing exhaust pipes...
...amazing witness was Mrs. Anne Stuart Snow, a Strickland descendant from Lewisville, Ark., who testified that her family's Bible had been destroyed by fire in 1896 when she was eleven years old. She said she recalled 160 pictures and biographies in the Bible, described the photographs in detail, said that Wilson Strickland's picture had been torn out of the lower left-hand corner of page two after he had quarreled with his father. Opposing attorneys tried for two days to cross-question her into inconsistencies, had no luck at all. One woman claimed that Wilson Strickland...
There is something which always amazes me about TIME, and that is the intimate detail in which you describe incidents which happen in Tokyo, London or Moscow. I will illustrate my meaning with a verbatim quotation from TIME, July 14: "Taking to the microphone with a big pitcher of tea at his elbow, Comrade Stalin saluted his fellow comrades in patriarchal tones." Now what I want to know is how does TIME know that Stalin had a pitcher of tea before him? . . . My question boils down to this: Was that story actually cabled from Moscow or was it made...
...articles on the ancient sport. At 41, while commander of the post at Aden, he took up sailing; and read every book he could get until he had mastered every salty trick of luff and leech. Also at Aden, he became interested in photography; and cared so much for detail that he went into micro-pictures, snapping miniature plants and shells...
...German Army fills the belly it marches on was described in scientific detail last week by a Viennese food expert now in Manhattan. In the New York State Journal of Medicine Dr. Max Bernhard Gerson presented a summary of military food facts gleaned from almost two dozen German medical journals...