Word: precisionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Munitions Minister Clarence Decatur Howe totted up Canada's 1943 war production: 4,133 aircraft; 15,500 fighting vehicles; 45,000 gun barrels, mountings and carriages; 175,000 units of mechanical transport; 580,000 machine guns, rifles and other small arms; 30,000,000 rounds of artillery ammunition; 1...
With machine precision the Germans went into action. Troops drove 400 women, 700 men toward an open square. Those who lacked identity cards were shot out of hand. Those who stumbled were killed. Fear swept unchecked through Rome, but this was not enough.
Three minutes later came more Fortresses; the third wave at 9:45. Watching the precision bombing, a U.S. general cried: "That's beautiful." He seemed to want to direct the planes: "That's the way. Keep them over to the left. Oh, oh, that one's a...
The charm of many of Miss Brice's pictures was due to the children's intense observation of minutiae-the weave of fabrics, the crisp precision of leaves against the sky. Strangely enough, only one of the pictures showed an airplane, perhaps because most of the collection was...
The General Staff. The credit for Hitler's failure went to many: soldiers, factory workers, railwaymen. Russia was also beginning to realize that a big part belonged to the officers of Generalnyii Shtab -the General Staff-who plotted Russia's offensives with precision, boldness, readiness to test new...