Word: precisionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both Thompson works on the second half of the program gave the Glee Club and Choral Society, excellent opportunity to display the skill, precision, and wonderfully clear diction which have placed them at the top of amateur choral groups in the country.
Like a doctor, the medicine man prescribes different ceremonials for different diseases. The ceremonials, lasting several days, are built around sacred chants and the making of sand pictures. The medicine man "paints" by trickling the pigments onto sand from his fist, with hairline precision; he lets the patient's...
Once more it was a case of being overpowered in the opening minutes and never recovering from the initial blow. Dartmouth sank four of its total in the first ten minutes, before the Crimson adjusted itself to the fantastic speed and precision teamwork of the Riley-Morriam-Riley line.
Canada, which had only one sure string to its Olympic bow, had to wait eight days to score a point. Then Glamor Girl Barbara Ann Scott (TIME, Feb. 2), with grace and precision, outshone 24 competitors to win the women's Olympic figure-skating championship. Her victory was so...
This children's crusade was the result of preaching. An English teacher named Mrs. Erma Pixley deeply agreed with irate parents who protested that their children were learning little of manners and less of morals in school. The school superintendent asked Mrs. Pixley to see what she could do...