Word: details
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ordinary photographic slide. It made a yellowish picture (of three G. E. scientists) that was almost too dim to be seen. Then Cusano fed electric current to terminals on the screen. As the voltage gradually increased, the image brightened until it was clearly visible. No contrast or detail of the original was lost. The strength of the light falling on the screen had remained the same; the increase in brightness was due to energy supplied by the electric current...
...STRANGER, by Morton Thompson, was the year's biggest bestseller, by a writer who died at 45 before his book was published. This sprawling story of a dedicated doctor won its audience with sincerity, energy and enough consulting-room detail to satisfy the most demanding hypochondriac...
Assistant County Prosecutor John J. Mahon, who has sent more people to the electric chair than any other prosecutor in Ohio, has tried to make his case with technical detail: drops of blood, grains of sand, eight strands of hair and other minutiae which demonstrated that Sam Sheppard could have committed the murder. The defense will call more than a score of witnesses in an effort to indicate that...
...change all that. An affiliate of the College Entrance Examination Board, the service has 92 members willing to cooperate on a new experiment in,, awarding scholarships. From now on, an applicant for a scholarship from a member campus will get a standard form asking him and his family every detail about finances down to the family car. The service will send copies of the form to the various campuses to which the student applied. Armed with this common information, the campuses will then decide just how much the student should get. Instead of trying to outbid each other...
...imagination. The following sentence appears to be on the threshold of a fascinating argument: "The Mechanistic philosophy is as much a myth as the story of Persephone." But alas, it is at the end of his article. This point is reached through a wealth of fascinating but laborious detail. Jung has discussed the myth similarly but with succinct logic. Heidegger's denial of "language as a mere sign" is a double proof for it affirms it s reasoning by the example of its won poetry. Berman, on the other hand, tries to make the point that "men are interrelated analogically...