Word: precisionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More precisely, the story, while not a fantasy, is totally fantastic. Although no guarantee can be made as to the precision of the following brief synopsis, as the events were attached to each other in a highly unmemorable fashion, the story goes something like this: James Stewart, playing the part...
Chief damage caused by small eastern earthquakes, aside from a little falling plaster, is the disalignment of precision instruments.
By the time the 5,145 prizes were awarded last week, G.M. felt that it had got its money's worth. The contest had proved a smart publicity stunt. It had also given G.M. a closer appreciation than ever before of two basic emotions of good factory workers: a...
Although cautious medicos earlier this week quashed Harlow's hopes for a pre-Yale scrimmage, and the first three teams consequently scrubbed and polished their wily maneuvers without benefit of bodily contact, there was a snap and precision present on Soldiers Field yesterday seen only rarely this year.
The mouse holocaust was a major disaster to researchers in medicine and biology. The Jackson Memorial Laboratory, though primarily devoted to biological research, had been for years the leading source of experimental mice. Last year it shipped 350,000 to U.S. and foreign researchers. Deprived of the Bar Harbor strains...