Word: details
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard examination system is designed, according to its promulgators, to test two specific things, knowledge of trends and knowledge of detail. Men approaching the examination problem have three choices: 1. flunking out, 2. doing work, or 3. working out some system of fooling the grader. The first choice of solution is too permanent, and the second takes too long...
When you treat events as living things, you must try to convey their color, drama and atmosphere. This effort makes TIME a glutton for detail, which means research...
...Trends. This research gives us more than detail; it helps give us structure-the true beginning, middle and end of a story. It is easy-and pointless-to say that bullfighting now faces the worst crisis in the history of the sport. But it is quite a different job to trace the factors which brought aficionados (including me) today's poor fare, and to show what these trends are likely to mean...
...money that you are spending . . . This bill is where you can save millions of dollars." Vinson quoted from the 1944 report of the Truman Investigating Committee, which raised hob about the Army's hotel leases and concluded "The War Department should review the entire situation in detail and report to the proper legislative committees of the Congress . . ." An aroused House overrode the veto...
...blood flowed on & on. Last week Red China's purge of "counterrevolutionaries" reached Manchuria, where Communist rule had seemed unchallenged. In 23 Manchurian cities, including Mukden and Changchun, and even in Russian-controlled Port Arthur and Dairen, police staged large-scale raids, which were reported in detail by Communist news service and radio. Thousands were arrested, hundreds hauled off to the inevitable public mass trials and executions...