Word: details
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Combs described in detail the work of Wadman at Berkeley, who is a graduate of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's academy, a graduate of Oxford University in England, and the veteran of 17 years of police work...
...second report, altering the whole means of appointments, was passed by the Faculty and the Corporation and was turned over of detail work to the two new Assistant Deans of the Faculty, Paul H. Buck and W. C. Graustein...
...fortunate enough to hear the 96-year-old William H. Jackson describe in a lecture how he made Colorado's famous Mountain of the Holy Cross picture in 1873 [TIME, May 31]. It's only a minor detail in your story, but I cannot resist pointing out that Mr. Jackson was not fortunate enough to clamber up the iced boulders with "primitive film." Somebody in his party had to haul glass plates up the mountain so that when the time came to make an exposure, all he had to do was to kneel in his tiny darkroom tent...
...career in which, so far, he has succeeded as a lawyer, newspaper publisher, soldier, Government official and educator. In 1942, at 32 and the father of three, he turned down a commission and enlisted in the Army as a private (a favorite camp story: when on cleanup detail, Private Gray carefully inspected each cigarette butt to determine how Camels were doing). Within seven years after his first camp cleanup detail, he was appointed Secretary of the Army by President Harry S. Truman. An intellectual, liberal Democrat, Gray is a poor target for critics who contend that there was an anti...
...week the reassembled tapestry went on view at the Metropolitan Museum's medieval showroom, The Cloisters, of which Rorimer is director. The tapestry, a sumptuous rectangle 30 ft. long by 11ft. high, has been named The Glorification of Charles VIII, King of France from 1483 to 1498. The detail reproduced on the opposite page, less than a third of the whole, shows the magnificence that the medieval artist, believed to have been Jan van Roome of Brussels, put into his work...