Word: precisionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some people seem to think TIME'S treatment and interpretation of various stories in the news is thought out and ordered in the sanctum of some Editorialissimo (see left and take your pick), that thereupon all vice presidents, managing and senior editors and other executives snap into line, and...
Actually, the editorial department of TIME bears less resemblance to a precision dance team than it does to an old-fashioned town meeting when somebody is trying to raise the tax rate. Far from marching in close order drill, the editorial department has, in miniature, most of the virtues-and...
Modern apparatus gymnastics was founded in the early 19th Century by Germany's Friedrich Ludwig Jahn. To this day the world's gymnasts follow the etiquette as well as the exercises established on his Turnplatz. They approach their specialties with exaggerated posturings and goose-step tread, perform with...
Hard enough to scratch glass, the steel is already used in micrometer parts and V-blocks-superaccurate gauges used in precision tooling. But plastic-metals men thought they could see many another possible use ahead, went on with their research.
"Precision bombing by American planes has blasted vital targets in enemy-occupied Europe and in the Mediterranean area and has won clear-cut victories in the Pacific. . . . All types of American fighter planes have shot out of the skies the best interceptors both Germany and Japan have put against them...