Word: details
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brigade. Among the first was Cornelius Krieghoff, adventuring son of a Dutch wallpaper manufacturer, who fought for the U.S. in the Indian wars and then went over the hill into Canada one night when his regiment camped near the border. He had an illustrator's eye for detail which rivaled his contemporaries, Currier & Ives. The other big man of his day was Paul Kane, who may have been the real counterpart of "Langdon Towne," the painter-hero in Kenneth Roberts' Northwest Passage. To paint wilderness Indians as they really were, he accompanied a Hudson's Bay Company...
Blameless Labor. Among the more recent publications of the Smithsonian are reports on the catfish of Venezuela and the songs of the Chitimacha Indians of Louisiana. Every detail of nature, Smithsonian men insist, is worth attention for itself alone...
...airplane by eye and radar. A signal puts it into a dive or spin. Down it screams. Shock waves buffet its wings, claw at its tail surfaces. If anything cracks, a flashing light on the television screen tells what part has yielded. No life is lost, and every detail of the plane's experience, up to the final smash if it comes, is accurately recorded...
Similar to its ante belium predecessors, the 48-page booklet examines in detail 52 courses regularly available to Freshmen, stating its opinions on the lecturers, section men, difficulty and fairness of examinations, and general value of each course on the basis of a College-wide poll taken last spring of all undergraduates enrolled in Freshman courses...
...stickler for detail, Dr. Brown includes even the receptionist in his scheme of therapy, trains every clinic employe to put patients at ease. To find out more about his patients' families and friends, he invites them to dances at the clinic. "A psychiatric social worker sensitized to the problem," says Dr. Brown, "talks to the patient's guests...