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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Addressing the one hundred and sixty-sixth annual winter dinner of the College Phi Beta Kappa Society, he pleaded for a two-fisted answer to the politiburo oligarchy, which, he asserted, controls every detail of Russian thought through the all-potent N.K.V.D...
...months ago, that their department had veered from the path taken by all other divisions of the College and was prepared to demand the fulfillment of this latter requirement. Thus some twenty to thirty men are saddled with the task of trying to cover their specific field in some detail, without the assistance of an adviser or tutor, and all within the space of one academic year...
Before Jamestown or Plymouth was founded, two European artists roamed the forests of North America. They found the New World as lovely as a daydream and as weirdly frightening as a nightmare, painted it with wideawake precision and detail. Last week their historically priceless pictorial reporting, long scattered and out of print, was reissued in one of 1946's handsomest books (The New World, Duell, Sloan & Pearce...
Katherine Marshall began to glimpse her new husband's extraordinary military qualities when she followed him to Fort Moultrie, S.C., where he commanded the 8th Infantry, in 1933. "No detail was too small for his attention, no soldier too lowly. ... If the post was shabby, with poorly kept grounds, he began fixing up his own garden and lawn; and within a few weeks all the lawns and gardens down the line began to take on a different complexion. There was never a word said, rarely an order given...
...Every detail of Dick Harlow's system--every block, spin, loop, and fake--received a thorough going-over yesterday afternoon, when the Varsity perfected its plans for stopping the Yale attack on Saturday and polished a few offensive tricks...