Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Since the previous notice in the CRIMSON, estimates of the cost have changed somewhat in detail; but while the Globe Theatre has unexpectedly gone down $25 per night, the other expenses will exceed the limit then stated. Below are the items...
...undertaking seems difficult, but if the four universities in question could be made to believe in it, then the minor matters of detail could be arranged without question. The financial hindrance is not so formidable as it appears, for there are graduates, almost without number, who would be glad to assist in the promotion of a series of races, like the one proposed. Will the boat club move in this matter, if the suggestion seems valuable to them...
...dated-letter or journal-method of telling a story is a device which is beginning to pall on readers of modern fiction. It is too frequently a convenient loop-hole for writers who have not the talent, or else wish to avoid the trouble of describing the closer detail of the surroundings of the actions portrayed. We fear that the writer of this story has not quite successfully covered up this loop-hole-the traces of it are here and there still to be seen. On the whole, the incidents of the story are well narrated...
...reference list indicating in detail the scope of the Society's work, with the names of the affiliated retail dealers, will be mailed on application after September...
...likely to pitch, and we have even occasionally seen him apparently successful in discovering some small stone or lump of hard earth which he has incontinently thrown away. (It has been said by the scoffing herd that the missile is not always seen to fall; but that is a detail.) Now a very slight irregularity where the ball pitches will affect the course which the ball afterwards follows; a ball which would break strongly if the ground were smooth where it fell, may have the break quite taken off by a slight irregularity, or, on the other hand, the break...