Word: precisionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Speed, dispatch and great precision
The B-29 crews took pains to make it a precision job. The big craft were over the city for an hour and a half. As at Palembang, bombermen reported antiaircraft fire and fighter opposition "weak to moderate." Losses for both attacks: three B-29s missing.
Handsome, 50-year-old Don Moon, fourth in his class (1916) at the Naval Academy, served on a battleship in World War I, made his way quietly up the naval ladder between wars. In 1942, as commander of a destroyer squadron, he helped support the landings on North Africa and...
Sirs: The competency of its construction, its style and technique-all, it seemed to me, was precision stuff. It exemplified just what I think George Ade meant when, years ago, he slipped a bit of seasoned advice to an aspiring youngster: "If it is your intention to push your way...
Tom Dewey got his carefully planned campaign off to a careful start last week. Everything ticked with the precision of a metronome. From Pawling to Pittsburgh to Springfield, Ill., to St. Louis and back, the schedule rolled efficiently through, each part of the whole falling trimly into place, on time...